17 - [COLLECTION OF PATRICK DAVID BIRDS] CHINESE BRONZE LONG SWORD WITH THE RARE ACCOMPANYING ORIGINAL LACQUER WOODEN SWORD BOX WITH COVER

[COLLECTION OF PATRICK DAVID BIRDS] CHINESE BRONZE LONG SWORD WITH THE RARE ACCOMPANYING ORIGINAL LACQUER WOODEN SWORD BOX WITH COVER EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES PERIOD 東周 戰國 青銅長劍 帶稀有原始漆木盒the sword with long, tapering blade with bevelled edges and a distinct median ridge, diamond-shaped guard, the hilt with two circular flanges, and the circular, dished pommel, the bronze has extensive malachite-green encrustation, with remnant of silk wrap fibres on the end of the hilt, together with its original lacquered wooden sword box and cover sword: 55cm long; 969.6g; box: 60cm long; 795.1g From the Collection of Patrick David Bird Surrey British Columbia, Canada.Patrick David Bird was born in Vancouver in 1960 and completed a BA in History at the University of British Columbia. He served in the Canadian Militia for five years which further fueled a life-long interest in military culture & history and collecting antique arms and armour.Mr. Bird has always been fascinated by cross cultural studies embracing both Asia Pacific & Western perspectives. Business development initiatives enabled him to travel extensively throughout Asia during the late 1980s through to the late 1990s. During this period, he was fortunate to add artifacts to his collection, develop a deeper understanding of the development of weapons, and at various times, further his training in Buddhism and sword practice.Mr. Bird was a member of the board of directors of the Vancouver Police Museum from 2001 to 2011 and, during that time, served 5 years as President. He remains steadfast in his passion for history and collecting antique arms and has been serving as Presidentof the Historical Arms Collectors Society of British Columbia (HACSBC) Canada since 2023.Collector's note about this collection: “From a technical point of view modern attempts to replicate the casting of bronze swords in the ancient way have not yielded results in producing a practical weapon. Weapons of the period were cast with a fighting edge and modern attempts to replicate bronze sword castings with an edge to this extent have failed. Specific examples are plated and glazed. Naturally occurring malachite and azurite deposits are evident and are consistent with the great age of the weapons. Most of the examples date from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period. Ref: Shang and Zhou Chinese Bronze Weaponry: C.H. Wang Collection. by Zhenhua Wang, Taibei: Gu yue ge, 1993.”帕特里克·大衛·伯德，薩里，不列顛哥倫比亞省，加拿大。帕特里克·大衛·伯德於1960年出生於溫哥華，並在不列顛哥倫比亞大學完成了歷史學文學學士學位。他曾在加拿大民兵服役五年，這進一步激發了他對軍事文化與歷史以及收藏古董武器和盔甲的終身興趣。伯德先生一直著迷於跨文化研究，涵蓋亞太與西方的視角。商業發展計劃使他能夠在1980年代末至1990年代末期間廣泛遊歷亞洲。在此期間，他幸運地為自己的收藏增添了文物，對武器的發展有了更深入的理解，並在不同時期進一步修習佛教和劍術。伯德先生於2001年至2011年間擔任溫哥華警察博物館董事會成員，並在此期間擔任了五年的主席。他對歷史和收藏古董武器的熱情始終堅定不移，並自2023年起擔任加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞省歷史武器收藏家協會（HACSBC）的主席。藏家筆記——關於此收藏：「從技術角度來看，現代試圖以古代方式複製青銅劍鑄造的嘗試，並未能生產出實用的武器。這一時期的武器鑄造時帶有可用於戰鬥的刃口，而現代在複製青銅劍鑄造時，試圖達到這種程度的刃口，卻未能成功。具體實例經過鍍層和上釉處理。天然存在的孔雀石和藍銅礦沉積物清晰可見，且與這些武器的悠久年代相符。大多數實例斷代於春秋晚期至戰國時期。參考文獻：王振華，《商周青銅兵器：王振華收藏》，台北：古越閣，1993年。」 Collector's note about the conservation of this lot: “a museum specialist was retained by the collector to assess options provide the conservations services. Over a period of one year the wooden sword box and lid were immersed in a PEG (polyethylene glycol) solution with the PEG molecules gradually replacing the water molecules in the artifact. Years later the sword box and lid remain stable.”It is extremely rare to have original container together with the archaistic bronze sword. Compare to a parcel-gilt bronze sword together with its black lacquerscabbard, dated to the Han dynasty, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 2022, lot 861. See a Zhou Dynasty bronze sword of similar form and slightly smaller in size (45.7cm long), is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Object Number: 24.172.2. Another finely cast bronze sword (51cm long) dated to Warring