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A SMALL ALTERED JADE SWORD SLIDE
LATE EASTERN ZHOU-HAN DYNASTY, 3RD-1ST CENTURY BC
The convex front extends beyond the rectangular slide on the reverse and is carved in
low relief with C-shaped scrolls and fnely incised at one end with a taotie mask. The
grey-green stone is now almost completely opaque and of warm ivory color.
1Ω in. (3.8 cm.) long, wood box

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1995.
Two jade slides of this date and small size are illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade
from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995, p. 300, fg. 1.

東周晚期/漢 玉劍璏

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IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART