Ritual Blade
30-8-12
Location: On Display in the Asia Galleries
From: China
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 30-8-12 |
| Current Location | Asia Galleries - On Display |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China |
| Period | Formative Period |
| Date Made | Formative Period |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Jade |
| Description | Very thin, dull, gray-green jade dagger with an imprint of a textile and traces of red pigment. There are impressions of ribbed fabric on side A (not pseudomorphic) while the impressions on side B are different. The fiber is not identifiable for either. The yarn-fabric structures are white. |
| Credit Line | Purchased from A. W. Bahr, 1930 |
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