China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 481-256 B.C.L. 26.7... Lot 11

China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 481-256 B.C.L. 26.7 cmBronze cast and gilded, with light green patina and incrustations, curved narrow blade, rhombus-shaped in cross-section, at the hilt three vertical and one oval slit.From the Zeileis Collection, collected in the 1980s and 90sCf. with an almost identical piece from the British Museum collection, published in Watson: Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962/77, no. 83/b; also an example identical in function but somewhat different in execution from the Junkunc collection, sold by Sotheby's New York, March 19, 2019, lot 111.Published in: Friedrich Georg Zeileis, 'From Shang to Qing, Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze', Gallspach, 1999, no. 121, p. 322 - Somewhat corroded.