Period:Han dynasty Production date:2ndC BC-2ndC AD
Materials:jade
Technique:carved, incised,
Dimensions:Diameter: 4.60 centimetres Depth: 0.65 centimetres
Description:
Sword pommel of pale green jade with brown veins and inclusions.
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![图片[1]-sword BM-2022-3034.167-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Han dynasty/Jades/54_1.jpg)
Comments:Some traces of earth on the surface which has a high gloss. There is iron rust encrustation on the underside. The round pommel is decorated with an inward-sloping band of spiral curls in relief surrounding a raised boss incised with four C-scroll curls with a cross-hatched lozenge in the centre. On the reverse side is a circular groove with two slanting perforations. Eastern Zhou. See Rawson 1995, p.297, cat.no.21.4. See Watt 1980, Ip Yee 1983, and Loo 1950. This pommel is similar to Rawson 1995 cat.no.21.3 (JEH no. 211) [2014,AsiaLoan,1.177] but carved in considerably lower relief. Like the previous pommel it has an outer register of neatly arranged relief whorls and a central circle filled with incised comma-shaped motifs, here there being four outlined in line rather than shown in relief. On the reverse is a circular groove with two slanting perforations. An almost identical piece has come from a Qin period tomb at Changsha Zuojiatang, tomb M1. It seems possible that the growth of Qin domination caused similar weapons and their ornaments to spread to many parts of the empire.
Materials:jade
Technique:carved, incised,
Dimensions:Diameter: 4.60 centimetres Depth: 0.65 centimetres
Description:
Sword pommel of pale green jade with brown veins and inclusions.
IMG
Comments:Some traces of earth on the surface which has a high gloss. There is iron rust encrustation on the underside. The round pommel is decorated with an inward-sloping band of spiral curls in relief surrounding a raised boss incised with four C-scroll curls with a cross-hatched lozenge in the centre. On the reverse side is a circular groove with two slanting perforations. Eastern Zhou. See Rawson 1995, p.297, cat.no.21.4. See Watt 1980, Ip Yee 1983, and Loo 1950. This pommel is similar to Rawson 1995 cat.no.21.3 (JEH no. 211) [2014,AsiaLoan,1.177] but carved in considerably lower relief. Like the previous pommel it has an outer register of neatly arranged relief whorls and a central circle filled with incised comma-shaped motifs, here there being four outlined in line rather than shown in relief. On the reverse is a circular groove with two slanting perforations. An almost identical piece has come from a Qin period tomb at Changsha Zuojiatang, tomb M1. It seems possible that the growth of Qin domination caused similar weapons and their ornaments to spread to many parts of the empire.
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