A RARE BRONZE AND JADE SPEARHEAD SHANG DYNASTY The conical bronze socket cast in intaglio on two sides with two, sinuous serpent-like bodies cast along their length with detached large scales and reserved on a leiwen ground, the bodies merging at the base of the small serpent head from which the jade blade issues, the blade tapering towards the beveled edges from a raised median ridge carved from dark bluish-green jade now almost completely altered in burial to an opaque buff color extensively suffused with mottling, the bronze shaft with cuprite, ferrous and lapis encrusation (jade blade recut) 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) long, lucite stand and case
A RARE BRONZE AND JADE SPEARHEAD SHANG DYNASTY The conical bronze socket cast in intaglio on two sides with two, sinuous serpent-like bodies cast along their length with detached large scales and reserved on a leiwen ground, the bodies merging at the base of the small serpent head from which the jade blade issues, the blade tapering towards the beveled edges from a raised median ridge carved from dark bluish-green jade now almost completely altered in burial to an opaque buff color extensively suffused with mottling, the bronze shaft with cuprite, ferrous and lapis encrusation (jade blade recut) 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) long, lucite stand and case
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