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

Close comparisons are the excavated examples from the Fu Hao burial at Anyang, see Yinxu Fu Hao Mu, Beijing, pl.17.2; and comparable examples represented by finds from the Western Sector Cemetery at Anyang, Kaogu, 1979, pl.102, fig.76.10.

A similar jade dagger from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 1 December 1994, lot 79