A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE AXE BLADE, GE Spring and Autumn/Warring States Period The blade issuing from a vertical hollow shaft, cast behind the blade with a snarling mythical animal above and gripping the back of a crouching bird with large beak and elaborate plumage, with a rounded cutting edge on the plain blade, wood stand. 14.5cm (5 3/4in) long. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 春秋/戰國 獸紋青銅戈 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2012, no.2. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2012年，編號2 See a similar bronze axe blade, ge, illustrated by T.Lawton, The Art of the Warring States Period, Washington, 1982, no.113. Compare also with a related ceremonial axe blade, ge, Eastern Zhou dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, pl.83; and another example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Yu Kuo-Ching, Rituals Cast in Brilliance: Chinese Bronzes Through the Ages, Taipei, 2014, p.125. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com