Jade Dagger, Chinese

An image of This jade dagger has a relatively small blade and tang. The upper edge is bent firmly down at the sharp tip to meet the lower edge. The bronze tang is decorated with a typical Shang bronze monster face and inlaid with turquoise. Chinese. 2000-1600 BC.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

This jade dagger has a relatively small blade and tang. The upper edge is bent firmly down at the sharp tip to meet the lower edge. The bronze tang is decorated with a typical Shang bronze monster face and inlaid with turquoise. Chinese. 2000-1600 BC.

Image data

Accession Number: O.10-1947
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 760 pixels
Image width: 382 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
Filesize: 52.65kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2008:03:05 01:20:16

Key words

BC Chinese Fitz_AA Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_PCtd bronze dagger jade weapons

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Jade Dagger, Chinese"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-3625141232 Accessed: 2025-12-07 15:55:33

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-3625141232
            |title=Jade Dagger, Chinese
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-07 15:55:33|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-170517

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/O_10_1947_20_281_29.jpg"
        alt="Dagger"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Jade Dagger, Chinese</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>