Tablet(Gui) blade with script Black jade with much pitting and some fibrous conversion. Blade decorated with beast face, bird, and script - all done with incised lines. Blade is flat on the back. Very hard to photograph - surface reflection quite high. This style of blade was supposedly used as a token of position or fealty in Zhou period. -  26.5 x 6.73 x 1.34 cm.
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