Early Chinese Art

Exhibits at Ballots

“…; 231 and a bronze example from the Ordos area and of about the same period as the exhibits, very similar to the 'comb money', has also been published. 232 The examples published by Tallgren from the Russian steppes lack the parallel and median ridging. 233 The trapezoidal knives also have stone prototypes (which also served as the pattern for one of the ritual jades) and examples from both China and Manchuria have been published.…”