The blade decorated with tendrils of flame, with a four-sided moulding at the center of the socket, all with gold damascened decoration
23¹⁄₂ in. (59.6 cm.) long, not including modern tang

The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired prior to 1990.

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Lot Essay

Compare the present lot with an example in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 2001.180), illustrated by D. LaRocca in Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, New Haven, 2006, no. 77; both the present example and the Metropolitan spear are similarly decorated on the blade with flame motifs.