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Jade. 



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represent original jade types and are not imitated in jade from models 

 in metal. No types corresponding to them in bronze have ever been 

 found, as- is the case with the jade buckles to be discussed hereafter. 



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a Fig. 161. b 



Jade Girdle-Clasp, Front and Back (from Ku yii t'u p'u). 



A priori we might infer from this that it is a type of considerable an- 

 tiquity; but from an historical viewpoint this is not the case. Wu 

 does not discuss the question of age; the older works make these objects 



