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LOT 1495
Chinese Zhou Bronze Socketted Spearhead
ZHOU DYNASTY, 1046-256 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.
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LOT 1495
Chinese Zhou Bronze Socketted Spearhead
Estimate £450 - 650€520 - 750 (for guidance only)$610 - 880 (for guidance only)
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