Feb., 1912. 



Jade. 



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(pi), the one intended for the lord of the fourth rank (tse) decorated 

 with a pattern of grain ku (Fig. 18), and the other for the lord of the 

 fifth rank (nan) ornamented with the emblem of rushes />'« (Fig. 



Fig. 20. 

 Jade Hammer-Shaped Symbol 

 of Imperial Power, chin kuei. 



19). 1 The Chinese illustrators of the Sung time represented the 

 former with a naturalistic design of four bundles of grain and the latter 

 with four naturalistic rushes. We explained the grain pattern above; 

 the "rush" pattern was in reality a geometric design consisting of rows 

 of hexagons, as we shall see later on (Fig. 72). We do not treat in this 



1 Also figured in Gingell, p. 34, and Couvreur, p. 620. 



