Photos reduced 1074. CHINA, Eastern Zhou dynasty - Warring States Period. State of Jìn. Early 4th century BC. Æ Pointed Shoulder Spade (145x67mm, 37.00 g). Anepigraphic pointed shoulder spade with long, hollow handle. BN Chinoises I 66; YüCh’üan pl. VI; Shanghai I 3; Hartill 2.181. VF, split at shoulder, original thick earthen deposits with underlying blue mineral encrustation. ($200) From the J.P. Righetti Collection.
Photos reduced 1075. CHINA, Eastern Zhou dynasty - Warring States Period. State of Jìn. Early 4th century BC. Æ Pointed Shoulder Spade (114x55mm, 30.29 g). Pointed shoulder spade with long, hollow handle; Gong (Duke) in early zhuànshū Hànzì (seal script) in right field. BN Chinoises I –; Yü-Ch’üan –; Shanghai I –; Hartill 2.186 var. (character in right field); cf. Ma Feihai (ed.), Zhongguo lidai huobi daxi, vol. I, Wang Qingzheng (ed.), Xian Qin huobi, Shanghaï 1988, p. 110 (for later form of this character). Good VF, green patina with a light dusting of brown earthen deposits. ($200) From the J.P. Righetti Collection.
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