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Trapezoidal Knife-Shaped Jade Tablet

Trapezoidal Knife-Shaped Jade Tablet

Chinese

Nephrite with sharply defined, translucent, pale bluish green and opaque buff areas divided by narrow dark bluish band

Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE

Ritual Implements