A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE SPEARHEAD (MAO) SHANG DYNASTY
well cast with the leaf-shaped blade extending to a hollow conical socket decorated with four upright triangular cicada motifs above two circular whorls separated by abstract angular scrollwork, set near the bottom with a pair of loops, the surface with malachite and cuprite encrustation
Length 9 5/8 in., 24.5 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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well cast with the leaf-shaped blade extending to a hollow conical socket decorated with four upright triangular cicada motifs above two circular whorls separated by abstract angular scrollwork, set near the bottom with a pair of loops, the surface with malachite and cuprite encrustation
Length 9 5/8 in., 24.5 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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