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A VERY RARE TURQUOISE- PROVENANCE
INLAID AND JADE INSET BRONZE C. T. Loo & Co., New York
Frank Caro, New York, 1964
GE-HALBERD BLADE Arthur M. Sackler Collection
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG PHASE, Sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2009, lot 227
C. 1300-1100 BC EXHIBITED
The jade blade is now altered to an opaque dark buff and olive- An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, C. T. Loo, Inc. at Norton
Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 20 January - 1 March
brown colour with median ridge on both sides and slightly 1950, pl. II, no. 2 (fig. 1)
bevelled edges, connected to the slender hafting bar of the bronze 4000 Years of Chinese Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
handle. The plain tang is pierced with a hole below the hilt cast Connecticut, November 1958, no. 20
in the shape of a bird's head with large hooked beak, bifurcated
crest and long curled feather on the back of the neck, all inlaid in
turquoise tesserae.
12 ¡ in. (31.3 cm.) long, box

HK$1,200,000-1,800,000
US$160,000-230,000

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