AN UNUSUAL BRONZE OPENWORK NA OF A GE

SOUTHEAST CHINA, LATE WESTERN ZHOU/SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH-5TH CENTURY BC

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AN UNUSUAL BRONZE OPENWORK NA OF A GE
SOUTHEAST CHINA, LATE WESTERN ZHOU/SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH-5TH CENTURY BC
Flat and of rhomboid outline, with a central panel cast in openwork with interlocking scrolls, surrounded by a border of S-scrolls, and outer border of angular scrolls interrupted by a notch below a band of horizontal lines, with milky-green patina
2 in. (5.1 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1986.

Exhibited

The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, Singapore, 2000, no. 52.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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Lot Essay

This unusual na from a ge would be of provincial manufacture, probably from Southeast China, lower Yangtze Valley. A very similar openwork na of the same shape can be seen on a halberd ge, dated late Shang/early Western Zhou, 11th century BC, illustrated by C. Deydier, Chinese Bronzes, Paris, 1980, p. 87, pl. 61.

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