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A RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE AND JADE GE HALBERD BLADE
A RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE AND JADE GE HALBERD BLADE

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE AND JADE GE HALBERD BLADE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The mottled greyish-green jade blade, which is now opaque, has beveled edges and a tiny hole. It issues from a bronze handle inlaid on each side with a turquoise-inlaid rectangular panel of a stylized taotie mask below the hafting bar. There is a hole in the plain nei, and another taotie mask inlaid at the end. There is blue-green encrustation and azurite encrustation on the blade.
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) long
来源
Yamanaka & Co., Inc., New York, 1943.
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954) Collection.
The Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, accessioned in 1962.
出版
Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art, Yamanaka & Co., Inc., New York, 1943, no. 222.
The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Chinese Bronzes and Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1965, pp. 20-21.
R. Spelman, The Arts of China, C.W. Post Center, Greenvale, New York, 1977, p. 25, no. 16.
展览
C.W. Post Center, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, The Arts of China, 4 February - 27 March 1977, no. 16.

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