拍品 89
89
A bronze Harpoon
Property from the Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth
A bronze Harpoon

INDIA, UTTAR PRADESH, CIRCA 1500 BC

細節
A bronze Harpoon
India, Uttar Pradesh, circa 1500 BC
The tapered blade with raised medial rib, with three pairs of projecting incurved barbs
14 in. (35.5 cm.) long
來源
Christian Humann, Pan-Asian Collection, before 1977

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Compare with four similar harpoons in the Kronos Collection, see M. Lerner, The Flame and the Lotus, Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Kronos Collection, 1984, cat. no. 1, p. 18. Cast in a mold, they follow the same design, with a small hole below the barbs for attachment to a shaft.