Ceremonial Dagger Ax

Original Language TitleGe

CultureChinese

DateShang dynasty (1500-1045 B.C.E.)

MediumJade (nephrite) blade with bronze tang

DimensionsOverall: 3 × 12 1/4 inches (7.62 × 31.12 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number35-78 A,B

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionKnife to be hafted. Jade blade. Handle in form of Kuei.Provenance

Provenance

Laurence Sickman;

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 8 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 278 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 286, pl. 5 (repro.).

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