IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167858 accession number: O.21-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 13 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: This unusual large jade ge blade and a short but wide tang with traces of cinnabar. The edge and surface of this halberd has calcified. The tang with rows of parallel ridged grooves, a form of decoration derived from the pattern of metal sections seen on Erlitou bronze blades. A large hole on the blade and another smaller one on the tang, were drilled from the same side. The unfinished carved line on this halberd, particularly the triangular shape in the middle, suggests that it was in the process of being altered into a different object. Large halberds such as this one are very unusual Shang tomb objects and might have appeared near the chest of the deceased title: dagger NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Gutmann, June 1934 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167858 CATEGORIES ------ category: jade DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 32 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18.2 CITATIONS -------- The Immortal Stone--Chinese Jades from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_O_21_1946_1_200711_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 681 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_O_21_1946_1_200711_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 333 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