Ge (Dagger-Axe)

The yuan is slender with narrow bevels on the cutting edge. It is decorated with an indeterminate design in niello and is further adorned in the upper part by a pierced pattern displaying a circle from from which two pierced lines issue, one toward the point, the other toward the nei. Mr. Karlbeck sees in this motif a resembles to a chu. The rounded end of the nei also displays a circle in openwork. Along the narrow flanges of the hu are three U-shaped holes. These served to bind the haft to the Kuo with thongs. Patinasoft greyed-green.