LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1100 BC

Compare the jade ge-halberd blade of larger size (31 cm. long) with similarly notched edge to the tang excavated from the Shang dynasty Laoniupo site, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China - 14 - Shaanxi, Beijing, 2005, p. 30. See, also, the similar example in the Winthrop Collection illustrated by M. Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 59, no. 39.