Blade

Arts of Asia

Late Neolithic (3000BCE-2000BCE)

China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Blade
Place: China (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 3000 BCE–2000 BCE
Medium: Jade
Dimensions: 19.7 × 6.4 × 0.5 cm (7 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection
Reference Number: 1950.314
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Alfred Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1952), page 84, Plate XXVI.

Edward Sonnenschein (1881–1935) and Louise Burnstein Sonnenschein (1884–1949), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 28, 1950.

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