AN OPAQUE JADE GE-HALBERD BLADE

SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1200 BC

Details

AN OPAQUE JADE GE-HALBERD BLADE
SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1200 BC
With a median ridge extending on both sides and beveled edges continuing to where the blade begins to taper to the point, with a hole drilled through the tang, the altered jade now completely opaque and of ivory color with some darker mottling
14 in. (35.6 cm.) long

Provenance

J.T. Tai & Co., New York, acquired prior to 1977.

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Lot Essay

This ge-halberd blade is quite similar in shape to one excavated from the late Shang dynasty tomb of Fu Hao at Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in Yinxu Yuqi (The Jades from Yinxu), Beijing, 1982, pl. 18 (bottom), although the jade of the present blade has altered completely from its original color. See, also, the similar opaque blade from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections sold in these rooms, 18 March 2009, lot 266.

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