Head of a Warhammer
Culture
Chinese
Date1500–100 BCE
Mediumbronze
Dimensions5 × 18 × 1.9 cm (1 15/16 × 7 1/16 × 3/4 in.), 15.73 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.605
Description2 bluntly-pointed heads of slightly different shape at either end of a rectangular socket. Socket expands by 0.002 to bottom where it is pierced by opposing small holes. Undecorated.ProvenanceYamanaka & Co., Inc., New York. Sold by order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States. Purchased by John W. Higgins Armory from Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale #579, Lot. no. 508 on June 15, 1944. Price paid for lot $45.00. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, Janaury 2014.
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Southern German
about 1550
