Period:Eastern Zhou dynasty Production date:8thC BC-2ndC BC
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:
Subjects:dragon mammal (tiger)
Dimensions:Height: 4.80 centimetres Width: 4 centimetres
Description:
Sword pommel of dark green jade with veining and some calcification, earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar.
IMG
![图片[1]-sword BM-2022-3034.179-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Eastern Zhou dynasty/Jades/mid_Jade_179.jpg)
Comments:The cylindrical form has a top with inset bronze boss and rounded turquoise inlay and surrounded by confronting C-scrolls in relief. Some traces of gold sheet on the bronze. The sides decorated in relief with three continuous bands of dragons and S-scrolls between striated borders. See Loo 1950 and New York 1939, and Rawson 1995, p.295, cat.no. 21.1. This rare fitting is in the shape of a slightly tapered cylindrical drum. On the top is a bronze setting holding a domed turquoise cabochon. The sides are divided into three registers by narrow ridges incised with fine striations. Within each register are small tiger or dragon heads in relief, intermingled with abstract scrolls. A hole for attaching a blade hilt or some similar item is drilled up the middle, slightly off centre. This kind of ornament is not precisely paralleled in the archaeological record. It is, however, of the period when experiments were being made with hilt ornaments and it may be contemporary with the jade hilt and pommel fittings from Jiangsu Liuhe Chengqiao. At that time a variety of different boldly formed fittings in jade were made to embellish weapons. The use of these varied and usually very carefully carved jades confirmed th high value of the weapons for their owners.
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:
Subjects:dragon mammal (tiger)
Dimensions:Height: 4.80 centimetres Width: 4 centimetres
Description:
Sword pommel of dark green jade with veining and some calcification, earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar.
IMG
Comments:The cylindrical form has a top with inset bronze boss and rounded turquoise inlay and surrounded by confronting C-scrolls in relief. Some traces of gold sheet on the bronze. The sides decorated in relief with three continuous bands of dragons and S-scrolls between striated borders. See Loo 1950 and New York 1939, and Rawson 1995, p.295, cat.no. 21.1. This rare fitting is in the shape of a slightly tapered cylindrical drum. On the top is a bronze setting holding a domed turquoise cabochon. The sides are divided into three registers by narrow ridges incised with fine striations. Within each register are small tiger or dragon heads in relief, intermingled with abstract scrolls. A hole for attaching a blade hilt or some similar item is drilled up the middle, slightly off centre. This kind of ornament is not precisely paralleled in the archaeological record. It is, however, of the period when experiments were being made with hilt ornaments and it may be contemporary with the jade hilt and pommel fittings from Jiangsu Liuhe Chengqiao. At that time a variety of different boldly formed fittings in jade were made to embellish weapons. The use of these varied and usually very carefully carved jades confirmed th high value of the weapons for their owners.
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