A JADE-INSET BRONZE GE-HALBERD BLADE DAGGER
A JADE-INSET BRONZE GE-HALBERD BLADE DAGGER
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A JADE-INSET BRONZE GE-HALBERD BLADE DAGGER

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1050-950 BC

Details
A JADE-INSET BRONZE GE-HALBERD BLADE DAGGER
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1050-950 BC
8 3⁄4 in. (19.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Dr. Paul Singer (1904-1997)
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987)
Sold at Christie's New York, Important Chinese Works of Art from The Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1 December 1994, lot 84
Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 28 January 1995
Literature
Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 138, no. 61
Exhibited
The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999

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Lot Essay

Compare a turquoise-inlaid and jade-inset bronze ge-halberd blade from the Chang Wei Hwa Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Chang Wei-Hwa Collection of Archaic Jades - Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties, 30 November 2020, lot 2706 (fig. 1), which shares a very similar handle as the present lot.

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