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Lot Essay
This ge hilt originaly belonged to a ceremonial dagger of which several examples were found in Anyang, the Shang capital from 1400 to 1050 BC. They were part of the funerary furniture of Fu Hao, King Wu Ding's wife and leader of the army.
A very similar hilt is kept at the Guimet Museum and illustrated in Maud Girard-Geslan, Bronzes Archaïques de Chine, Trésors du Musée Guimet, Paris 1995, p.178, 179. Some complete daggers have been published in the catalogue of the National Palace Museum exhibition, Collector's Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Beijing 1999, pl.61 and in Mary Tregear and Shelegh Vainker, Trésors de l'Art en Chine, Paris 1993, p.207.
A very similar hilt is kept at the Guimet Museum and illustrated in Maud Girard-Geslan, Bronzes Archaïques de Chine, Trésors du Musée Guimet, Paris 1995, p.178, 179. Some complete daggers have been published in the catalogue of the National Palace Museum exhibition, Collector's Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Beijing 1999, pl.61 and in Mary Tregear and Shelegh Vainker, Trésors de l'Art en Chine, Paris 1993, p.207.