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Sword hilt with animal decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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2nd - 1st century BC (200 - 1 BC)
Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 9)
- Material and technique
- jade, with carved decoration
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 8.6 x 1.4 cm (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.18
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Further reading
University of Sussex, and Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Barlow Collection, supervised by Regina Krahl, Maurice Howard, and Aiden Leeves (Sussex: University of Sussex, 2006), no. J3
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Barlow Collection
The piece is exquisitely made, of opaque greenish-beige stone, carved like a slightly curved band with downward curling ends and a square socket for attachment underneath. The surface is decorated with a highly stylized animal motif, consisting of an abstract pattern of interconnected curled motifs, arranged at right angles, with a head indicated at one end by two eyes under curved eyebrows. The decoration is raised in shallow relief with faintly incised detail. The underside is plain.
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