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Forked blade (<em>zhang</em> 璋)
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Ceremonial implement of the type kuei [gui] 圭; opaque, moss green with minute silvery specks and scattered light tan strata marks; area of mottled grayish brown decomposition at handle and a blue green streak at conical perforations; smoothed depressions near each end on one side; upper corner chamfered. (Handle and corner chipped.)
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineForked blade (<em>zhang</em> 璋). ca. 1600-1400 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
