Help on an animal motif on Chinese spearhead

Robert · 6th February 2006, 04:38 AM

I'm no expert but it looks like an owl to me.

Jens Nordlunde · 6th February 2006, 05:08 PM

Welcome to the forum

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Please let us see the whole weapon and a detail of the decoration only - as big as possible.

Jens

Yu-Ming Chang · 18th February 2006, 03:27 PM

Here are bigger photographs of the spearhead (took me a little longer to take them then I thought it would).

Yu-Ming Chang · 18th February 2006, 03:42 PM

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I'm no expert but it looks like an owl to me.

It does look like an owl! I was sort of fixated on (in my mind in any case) more common decorative motifs in Chinese art that I dismissed birds from my consideration simply because the carving didn't look like a phoenix.

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Welcome to the forum

Thank you.

Valjhun · 18th February 2006, 09:24 PM

Pekingese dog?

6th February 2006, 05:08 PM	#2
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Welcome to the forum. Please let us see the whole weapon and a detail of the decoration only - as big as possible. Jens

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Yu-Ming Chang Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 21	Here are bigger photographs of the spearhead (took me a little longer to take them then I thought it would). Attached Images

18th February 2006, 09:24 PM	#5
Valjhun Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 692	Pekingese dog? Attached Images Last edited by Valjhun; 18th February 2006 at 09:51 PM.

6th February 2006, 04:38 AM	#1
Robert EAAF Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	I'm no expert but it looks like an owl to me.