CNG 96, Lot: 1085. Estimate $200. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CHINA, Eastern Zhou dynasty - Warring States Period. State of Jìn. City of Lúshì. Late 6th-early 5th centuries BC. Æ Sloping Shoulder Spade (86x49mm, 27.14 g). Sloping shoulder spade with hollow handle; Lu Shi in early zhuànshū Hànzì (seal script) characters. BN Chinoises I –; Yü-Ch'üan pl. XII, 1; Shanghai I 183-5; Hartill 2.167. Good VF, green patina with green encrustations and brown earthen deposits.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection. Ex Emporium Hamburg 19 (7 May 1990), lot 781.