LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE BRONZE AXE
LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
The circular axe head cast on each side with a whorl-star motif, projecting from one side of the tubular socket cast with two stylized blades framing small circular bosses, opposite two loop handles, the larger framing a further band of circular bosses
5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) long

来源

In Japan by the 1980s.

出版

Chuugoku Sengoku Jidai no Bijutsu (The Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1991, p. 89, no. 117.

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Axes of this type appear to have been made in Northeast China, between the 11th-8th century BC. They were a continuation of a socketed type first made in West Asia, which was introduced into the periphery of China during the 2nd millenium BC.

The same whorl motif can be found on an axe of this type in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, illustrated by M. Loehr, Chinese Bronze Age Weapons, University of Michigan, 1956, p. 5, fig. 3A; and on another socketed axe head illustrated by E. Bunker et al., Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, no. 42.