A rare bronze dagger, 7th - 6th Century BC | 公元前七至六世紀 青銅蟠虺紋短劍
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A rare bronze dagger
7th - 6th Century BC
公元前七至六世紀 青銅蟠虺紋短劍
Length 12⅝ in., 32.2 cm
Christie's London, 12th May 1975, lot 7.
Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997).
Wou Lien-Pai Museum, 1975-present, co💟lꦏl. no. E.8.2.
倫敦佳士得1975年5月12日，編號7
吳權博士 (1910-1997) 收藏
吳蓮伯博物院，1975年至今，編號E.8.2
Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Hong Kong, 2011, pl. 16.
柯玫瑰等，《Chinese Antiquities from th♎e Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum》，香港，2011年，圖版16
Compare a similar bronze dagger from the Therese and Erwin Harris collection illustrated in the catalogue Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C., 1995, cat. no. 43, where it is noted that similar daggers have been excavated in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, and were likely early modern exports of predynastic Qin or the workshops of neighboring states, see ibid., pp. 126-7.