1. (Undated folder sheet note) Purchased from Ton-Ying & Co., New York. For price, see <u>Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920<e>.
2. (J.A.P., 1944) One of a group of twelve weapons said to have been found at Hsun Hsien, Wei-hui Fu, Honan Province. (<u>cf<e>. 34.3)
The short, pointed blade has a rounded longitudinal ridge on each side. The socket is rectangular both in outline and in section; and a hole in each side probably received a transverse pin to secure the haft.
Areas near the tip are free of patination and show signs of grinding and filing. It may be that this was once a longer blade that was broken off and subsequently filled down to a fresh point. It does not seem, however, that it can have been much longer as the size and thinness of the socket were obviously not designed to supp9oort a weapon or tool of any great size or destined for heavy work. Whatever it may have been, it is an unusual form and nothing like it has yet been found in published repertories of bronzes. Neither the stubby blade nor the rectangular socket appears to have any relatives in the field of Chinese bronze weapons.
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