Chinese Shang dynasty spear,1100 B.C.,Ref:ShangHai Museum has a similar one (Picture 9). L:22.5 CM.Well cast with the leaf-shaped blade extending to a hollow conical socket decorated with four upright triangular cicada motifs above two circular whorls separated by abstract angular scrollwork, set near the bottom with a pair of loops, the surface with malachite and cuprite encrustation.Catalogue Note: Although typical in form of Shang dynasty spearheads, the present lot is notable for having a cast design on the socket. Compare a closely related example, in the Shanghai Museum(picture 9), illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan qingtongjuan [Compendium of Chinese art. Bronzes], Taipei, 1993, cat. no. 242; and another, from the Avery Brundage Collection, now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco(picture 10), acc. no. B60B762. Most spearheads of this type are undecorated, such as a large group excavated from tomb 1004 at Xibeigang, Anyang, Henan provenance, currently in the collection of Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, included in the exhibition King Wu Ding and Lady Hao. Art and Culture of the Late Shang Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2012, cat. no. IV-1; and two sold in these rooms, 8th November 1980, lot 5, and 7th December 1983, lot 65.商代青銅雙繫葉矛，約公元前1100年,長度22.5厘米。本品雖屬典型商代青銅矛形制，然其骹鑄有紋飾，頗為少見。上海博物館收藏一例（圖9），圖載於《中國文物精華大全•青銅卷》，臺北，1993年，編號242；Avery Brundage 收藏一例，現藏於舊金山亞洲藝術博物舘（圖10），舊金山，館藏編號B60B762。此類矛多數無紋飾，臺灣中央研究院歷史語言研究所收藏一組作例，河南安陽西北岡1004號墓出土，曾展於《武丁與婦好 : 殷商盛世文化藝術特展》，國立故宮博物院，臺北，2012年，編號IV-1；紐約蘇富比曾售兩例，分別為1983年12月7日，編號65及1980年11月8日，編號5。