HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

J. Rawson, in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, pp. 299-300, illustrates several Han jade scabbard slides of this type carved with similar C-shaped volutes and an animal face with eyes and striated brows at one end. Other comparable Han jade slides include the example in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 2008.282, Purchase, Gift of Sir Joseph Hotung, and the example in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, acc. no. EA1956.1583, Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram.