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LOT 1378
Chinese Chou Bronze Spearhead
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
12 1/2 in. (250 grams, 32 cm).
With thick midrib, leaf-shaped blade with lateral spurs, deep tubular socket with fastening hole for the attachment to the wooden shaft.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, (plate XXXVIII nos.47-48, for a similar spearhead from Wuchengqiao, country of Liuhe, Prov. Jiangsu, and Fengshuiling, near Changzhen, prov. Shanxi.
Footnotes
The Chou chariot carried three crewmen, a driver, an archer on the left and a man armed with spear or dagger-axe on the right. The long spears were in bronze until the 300 B.C., when the Chou warriors began to adopt steel spearheads, 'as sharp as a bee's sting'.
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LOT 1378
Chinese Chou Bronze Spearhead
Estimate £700 - 900€810 - 1,040 (for guidance only)$950 - 1,220 (for guidance only)
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