A PALE GRAY AND TAUPE JADE SWORD CHAPE

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A PALE GRAY AND TAUPE JADE SWORD CHAPE
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

Of lenticular section, the plain sides tapering to sharp flat-cut edges on the sides and flaring gracefully upwards towards the flat top, the base also flat and drilled with a deep cylindrical hole for attachment, the lucent stone with high polish and of grayish-white color with brown mottling and some buff alteration from burial concentrated mostly along the base, some rim chips--2¼in. (5.7cm.) across

Lot Essay

A similar example was included in the exhibition, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Freer Gallery of Art, 1982, and illustrated in the Catalogue, fig. 107. Several others are in the Sonnenschein Collection, illustrated by Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1952, pl. XCI:7 and pl. XCII:1, 2