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Chinese jade scabbard slide

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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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rgb(200,192,176), rgb(4,4,4), rgb(102,93,80), rgb(147,115,76), rgb(124,124,124), rgb(49,40,31), rgb(124,132,124), rgb(133,92,53), rgb(60,68,68), rgb(60,60,68), rgb(28,36,28)

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