A bronze 'animal masks' spearhead,

Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period

東周戰國時期 青銅變形龍紋矛頭

the elaborate haft surmཧounted by stylized masks cast in relief and covered in dense geometric designs, set with a small loop on one side and the remains of another loop on the other side, the short and broad blade rendered with a central ridge flanked by two sunken channels, each channel cast with abstract zoomorphic patterns, filled with fine hatching in the troughs, the blade of a dark silvery tone

19.1 cm