- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Large, thinly sliced trapezoidal blade. Dark mottled gray green altered at one end to grayish white. Two holes on each end of the top blunt edge are drilled from the same side; the middle hole is drilled from the other side. One short end smooth, the other broken by ragged, uneven notches with weak engraved lines on both sides. (Chipped corners and edges.)
- Published References
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- J. Keith Wilson, Jingmin Zhang. Jades for Life and Death. .
- Elizabeth Childs-Johnson. Dragons, Masks, Axes and Blades from Four Newly-documented Jade-producing Cultures of Ancient China. vol. 19, no. 4 Hong Kong, 1988. p. 34, fig. 15.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Jades for Life and Death
- Google Cultural Institute
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