A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE SWORD

WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

細節

A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE SWORD
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
The long faceted blade with raised median gilded except for the edges below a diamond-shaped guard gilded on the sides, the slender, columnar handle encircled by two flanges below the flared circular pommel which is gilded on the underside, some pale green encrustation
18 3/8 in. (47.6 cm.) long, Japanese fitted wood box

來源

Kochukyo, Japan.

拍品專文

A sword of this type, dated early Warring States period, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - Dong Zhou, vol. 11, Beijing, 1995, pp. 96-7, no. 101, has what looks to be a partially gilded blade and a hilt of similar form wrapped with cords, showing that hilts of this type were originally wrapped.