AN ALTERED JADE GE-HALBERD BLADE

LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1100 BC

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AN ALTERED JADE GE-HALBERD BLADE
LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1100 BC
The blade with subtle median ridge and the edges beveled up to where the point is formed, the bottom edge very slightly curved, with a conical hole drilled through the tang and four notched flanges along the butt edge, the finely polished stone now of mottled buff and olive-buff color
9 in. (23 cm.) long

Provenance

J.T. Tai & Co., New York, prior to 1966.

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Lot Essay

Compare the jade ge-halberd blade of larger size (31 cm. long) with similarly notched edge to the tang excavated from the Shang dynasty Laoniupo site, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China - 14 - Shaanxi, Beijing, 2005, p. 30. See, also, the similar example in the Winthrop Collection illustrated by M. Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 59, no. 39.

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