LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 4TH CENTURY BC-1ST CENTURY AD

The largest chape is notable for its large size and for the pieces of bronze that have corroded into the surface on one side. The scroll decoration on this chape is similar to that on a chape of more narrow proportions in the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, illustrated by Max Loehr in Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, 1975, p. 310, no. 455, where it is dated late Eastern Zhou or Western Han.