Massive reaping style blade with 7 holes  - Opaque green jade with various colors of suffusion and calcification; much pitting has been removed, but fissures are evident; jade is fibrous in places (conversion to actinolite).
- Flat surface of blade is smooth but has gentle ripples (from cutting).
- This piece has been extensively prepared (cleaned) but surface damage is visible close up.
- Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade: Fron the Neolithc to the Qing, pp. 184 -185, describes similar "ceremonial blades in the shape of reaping knives". This piece seems to fit into this tradition.
- 50.1 x 8.45 x 1.1 cm - 1.06 kg.
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