Chinese carved jade scabbard slide

An image of Scabbard Slide. Grey-green jade with large areas of brown staining. One side decorated with C-shaped volutes and the other with rows of small spirals in relief. Nephrite, height 1.45 cm, length 4.6 cm, width 2.2 cm, 1368-1644 AD, Chinese.

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Scabbard Slide. Grey-green jade with large areas of brown staining. One side decorated with C-shaped volutes and the other with rows of small spirals in relief. Nephrite, height 1.45 cm, length 4.6 cm, width 2.2 cm, 1368-1644 AD, Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.42-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 678 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 72.82kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2008:03:05 01:39:15

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AD carved Chinese Fitz_AA jade nephrite scabbard scabbard slide sword guard volutes

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