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Ge-halberd blade with turquoise-inlaid bronze tang

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Description: Ge-halberd blade with turquoise-inlaid bronze tang

TitleGe-halberd blade with turquoise-inlaid bronze tang

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureChinese

Creator roleArtist

Creation datec. 1500–1300 BC

Creation date (description)Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsLight olive- and gray-green nephrite with white textile impressions

DimensionsL 27.8 × W 6.7 (blade) × 0.5 cm thick

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/204613

Accession number1943.51.6

SubjectsJade carvingJadeJade art objects--China--History

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4. Arrival of a New Competitor: Jade in an Age of Bronze (c. 2000–1200 BCE)

Description: Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums

Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums

Toward the beginning of the second millennium BCE, a new material arrived for the production of ritual and associated objects that significantly changed the social, cultural, and technological landscape of ancient China. Metal was introduced, with its attendant range of working techniques, perhaps first as simply...

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PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Copyright© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Related print edition pages: pp.101-140

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00041.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18068&redirecttoanchor=31767

Chapter subject tags:Jade--ChinaJade carving, PrehistoricBronze age studiesExcavations (Archaeology)--ChinaJade art objects--ChinaFuneral rites and ceremonies--China--History

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