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LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Details
A RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE AND JADE GE HALBERD BLADE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The mottled greyish-green jade blade, which is now opaque, has beveled edges and a tiny hole. It issues from a bronze handle inlaid on each side with a turquoise-inlaid rectangular panel of a stylized taotie mask below the hafting bar. There is a hole in the plain nei, and another taotie mask inlaid at the end. There is blue-green encrustation and azurite encrustation on the blade.
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) long
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The mottled greyish-green jade blade, which is now opaque, has beveled edges and a tiny hole. It issues from a bronze handle inlaid on each side with a turquoise-inlaid rectangular panel of a stylized taotie mask below the hafting bar. There is a hole in the plain nei, and another taotie mask inlaid at the end. There is blue-green encrustation and azurite encrustation on the blade.
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) long
Provenance
Yamanaka & Co., Inc., New York, 1943.
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954) Collection.
The Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, accessioned in 1962.
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954) Collection.
The Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, accessioned in 1962.
Literature
Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art, Yamanaka & Co., Inc., New York, 1943, no. 222.
The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Chinese Bronzes and Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1965, pp. 20-21.
R. Spelman, The Arts of China, C.W. Post Center, Greenvale, New York, 1977, p. 25, no. 16.
The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Chinese Bronzes and Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1965, pp. 20-21.
R. Spelman, The Arts of China, C.W. Post Center, Greenvale, New York, 1977, p. 25, no. 16.
Exhibited
C.W. Post Center, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, The Arts of China, 4 February - 27 March 1977, no. 16.
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