A BRONZE AXE, YUE

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE AXE, YUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The curved blade cast in intaglio at the top on both sides with a large taotie mask formed by addorsed dragon heads arched above a fanged mouth, the asymmetrically placed tang (nei) pierced with a hole below a taotie panel cast on each side, with mottled green patina
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) long, box

来源

Alan Hartman, New York, 1987.

展览

The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, Singapore, 2000, no. 23.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006, p. 114, no. 92.

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拍品专文

Two similar axes (yue) of this type, illustrated by M. Loehr, Chinese Bronze Age Weapons, The University of Michigan, 1956, pls. III and IV, nos. 4 and 5, have similar jawed masks at the top of the blade and taotie masks on the tang, which would have been inlaid with turquoise. Another is illustrated by B. Karlgren, "New Bronzes in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities", BMFEA 24, 1952, pl. 4 (a & b). See, also, the example illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu, Beijing, 1980, pl. LXIX (1), and p. 106, fig. 66 (2).