id:			151358
accession number:	1983.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.2
updated:		2025-05-02 11:08:42.240000

Ceremonial Dagger-Axe with Animal Masks (Ge), c. 1600–1050 BCE. China, Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE). Jade (nephrite); overall: 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.2

title:				Ceremonial Dagger-Axe with Animal Masks (Ge)
title in original language:	饕餮紋玉戈
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creation date:			c. 1600–1050 BCE
creation date earliest:		-1610
creation date latest:		-1040
current location:		241A Arts of Ancient China
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE)
technique:	jade (nephrite)
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Shang Dynasty
type:		Jade
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measurements: Overall: 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1983
	opening date:   1984-02-22T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1983</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection</em>. University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD (March 23-April 30, 1972).', 'opening_date': '1972-03-23T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Captain S. N. Ferris Luboshez, U.S.N. [1896–1984], consigned to sale at Sotheby's, New York
	date: by 1972–1982
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	(Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, NY, November 18, 1982, lot no. 3)
	date: November 18, 1982
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	(J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1982–1983
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1983–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	McNamee, Harriet. <em>Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection. [Exhibition Held at] University of Maryland Art Gallery, March 23 - April 30, 1972</em>. College Park: University of Maryland Dept. of Art, 1972.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. 17, pp. 12, 42; Reproduced: fig. 19, p. 41
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	Sotheby's, New York. <em>Important Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Works of Art: the Collection of Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez, USN (Ret'd)</em>. 18 November 1982. Lot 23.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: Lot 3
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	Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79.
	page number: 	Reproduced: no. 241, p. 66; Mentioned: no. 241, pp. 62, 77
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848

	Wilson, J. Keith. "Lithic Art in the Bronze Age: A Jade Dagger-Axe." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 1 (1990): 2-35.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cover
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160102

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 5
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20

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