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Blade 4

 Ge style blade with animal faces
 
  • White translucent jade with milky white occlusions and some damage to the edges.
  • Surface has a beautiful sheen and translucence.
  • Upper animal face (on haft) has bottle horns which are truncated at the top - presumably due to damage to the end of the haft.
  • Lower animal face has curved horns like a sheep. Both of these styles belong to the Shang vocabulary.
  • The blade proper has three grooves, one down the middle and one on each side. This is not unusual for Ge style blades.
  • The hole at the beginning of the haft has been drilled from both sides. Functionally it would have been used to lash the haft to a pole in the fashion of a pike.
  • 19.7 x 4.38 x .6 cm.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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