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113. An Archaic Jade Sword Guard ( Ge )
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)
carved on both sides with the eyes of a dragon at the center flanked by linked ‘C’ scrolls.

Length 2 ⁄16 inches (5.5 cm)
3
Compare the jade sword guard illustrated by Zhang, Shanghai bowuguan cangpin yanjiu daxi: Zhongguo gudai yuqi (Research
series of the Shanghai Museum Collection: Ancient Chinese Jades), Shanghai, 2009, p. 164, no. 131.
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114. An Archaic Jade Sword P ommel ( Shou )
Warring States Period (475–221 B.C.)

incised with bands of fine linear crosshatching on the top, the underside carved with linked pairs of
comma-spiral motifs, the flat base drilled for attachment.

Diameter 1 ⁄16 inches (4.9 cm)
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Compare the jade sword pommel with similar incised design, excavated in 1999 at Shitangzhen, Banshan district, Hangzhou,
Zhejiang province, illustrated by Li (ed.) in Hangzhou guyu (Ancient Jade of Hangzhou), Beijing, 2003, p. 74, no. 57.
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115. An Archaic Jade Sword Guard ( Ge )
Late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 4th–3rd Century B.C.

carved on one side with a chilong with serpentine body threaded through the central ridge, the
other side with two eyes centering a simplified taotie.

Length 2 ⁄16 inches (5.3 cm)
1
Compare the jade sword guard of this form and design illustrated by Lam, Nanyue wang mu yuqi (Jades from the Tomb of the
King of Nanyue), Hong Kong, 1991, nos. 195-196.
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116. An Archaic Jade Scabbard Chape ( Bi )
Warring States Period, 4th–3rd Century B.C.
carved on the top, front and back with symmetrical arrangements of hooked angular scroll motifs
in low relief accentuated with incised lines.

Height 2½ inches (6.4 cm)
Compare the jade scabbard chape in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated by Lawton, Chinese Art of the
Warring Sates Period: Change and Continuity, 480–222 B.C., Washington D.C., 1982, p. 160, no. 108.
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