AN UNUSUAL OLIVE-GREEN SERPENTINE HEXAGONAL SWORD HILT

LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN/EARLY WARRING STATES PERIOD, LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY BC

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AN UNUSUAL OLIVE-GREEN SERPENTINE HEXAGONAL SWORD HILT
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN/EARLY WARRING STATES PERIOD, LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY BC
Of notched outline, carved in low relief with various kinds of scrolls, those on one of the faceted broad sides divided into three registers by rope-twist borders which correspond to the shallow grooves dividing the scrolls on the narrow sides, the other broad side with allover scroll pattern, with further scrolls on the top, and a circular socket on the bottom
1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high

Provenance

C.T. Loo & Co., New York.
Frank Caro, New York, 1961.

Exhibited

An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, C.T. Loo & Co. at the Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 1950, pl. LIV (11).

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Lot Essay

A jade hilt of similar type from Jiangsu Liuhe Chengqiao, dated 6th-5th century BC, is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 3, Hebei, 1993, p. 55, no. 91, and again by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, p. 292, fig. 4, where the author notes that hilts of this type were copies of those made in gold.

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