Lot 345. A bronze blade, Shang dynasty; Length 26.4 cm. 10¼ in. Lot sold: 5,040 GBP (Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 GBP). (C) 2021 Sotheby's

of elegant tapering form terminating in a point, the metal heavily azurite encrusted.

Provenance: Collection Armand Trampitsch (1890-1975). 

Ader Picard Tajan auction in Tokyo, Hôtel Okura, 30th May 1985, Lot 75.

Sotheby's. Two Americans in Paris, The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, London, 4 November 2021