WARRING STATES PERIOD-EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

Compare the scabbard chape carved with similar decoration, dated to the Western Han period, illustrated by Yang Boda in Chinese Archaic Jades in the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994, no. 219, where the entry notes that chapes with a similar type of decoration have been found in tombs of Western Han date in Guangzhou.