This jade dagger in its shape and the way in which the median ridge extends full length and the edges are beveled from the haft to the point is typical of Late Shang production at Anyang, which was the dynastic capital in northern Henan Province

Close comparisons to the Sackler ge are the excavated examples from the Fu Hao burial at Anyang, see Yinxu Fu Hao mu, Beijing, n.d., pl. 17:2. This example is similarly colored an opaque sandy yellow with black mottling and also is designed as a slightly curving blade with tapering point, rectangular haft and a perforation hole piercing the tang. The dimensions of the excavated and Sackler example are also comparable. Other comparable Late Shang examples are represented by finds from the Western Sector Cemetery at Anyang, Kaogu 1979:1, p. 102, fig. 76:10