Lot 49
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AN ELABORATE BRONZE DAGGER
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AN ELABORATE BRONZE DAGGER

WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

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AN ELABORATE BRONZE DAGGER
Warring States period (475-221 BC)
The thin broad blade cast with chevrons and a recessed circular panel, the elaborate hilt cast in openwork with densely scrolling dragons and holding two smaller detached 'daggers' with dragon-ring handles, the handle comprising two cylindrical rods connected by an entwined dragon strut and terminating in a volute, thick malachite encrustation, pommel chip
17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) long
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Compare examples with hilts on which parallel rods are indicated, but not separated, in Emma C. Bunker, Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1997, nos. 139-140; compare also two examples from the same period with similar scrolls forming the pommel, in op. cit., figs. 130.1 and 130.2.

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