Chinese jade scabbard slide

An image of Scabbard Slide. Translucent, creamy-white jade with extensively altered surface, decorated with C-shaped volutes and a taotie monster face at one end. Nephrite, height 3 cm, length 10.5 cm, width 2.35 cm, 200-1 B.C. Chinese.

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Scabbard Slide. Translucent, creamy-white jade with extensively altered surface, decorated with C-shaped volutes and a taotie monster face at one end. Nephrite, height 3 cm, length 10.5 cm, width 2.35 cm, 200-1 B.C. Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.18-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 461 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 69.24kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2007:11:24 12:50:40

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2nd Century BC carved Chinese Fitz_AA jade nephrite scabbard scabbard slide sword guard taotie mask volutes

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