A HIGHLY IMPORTANT INSCRIBED ‘MARQUIS MI’ WHITE JADE GE-HALBERD BLADE LATE SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1300-1100 BC The blade is carved with a median ridge extending on both sides with bevelled edges continuing to where the blade begins to taper to the point, with a hole drilled through the tang below incised cross-hatching design between horizontal lines. A four-character inscription in oracle-bone script, Qi hou Mi yong, ‘for the use of the Marquis Mi of Qi ’, is incised in a vertical line next to the hafting bar. The jade has a superb even creamy-white tone with an unctuous texture. 11 ½ in. (29.8 cm.) long, box Provenance Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1998
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT INSCRIBED ‘MARQUIS MI’ WHITE JADE GE-HALBERD BLADE LATE SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1300-1100 BC The blade is carved with a median ridge extending on both sides with bevelled edges continuing to where the blade begins to taper to the point, with a hole drilled through the tang below incised cross-hatching design between horizontal lines. A four-character inscription in oracle-bone script, Qi hou Mi yong, ‘for the use of the Marquis Mi of Qi ’, is incised in a vertical line next to the hafting bar. The jade has a superb even creamy-white tone with an unctuous texture. 11 ½ in. (29.8 cm.) long, box Provenance Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1998
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