1. (Kelly Welch, December 1, 1995) Format changed from "sword and guard" to "sword" per request of Jenny So.
2. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 8, 2008) Weapon and Armament added as secondary classification.
3. (Jeffrey Smith per Matthew Clarke, August 1, 2022) Medium changed from Jade to Jade (nephrite).
4. Title changed from "Sword guard (beng)" to "Sword guard with mask"; Period One changed from “Eastern Zhou to Western Han dynasty” to “Eastern Zhou dynasty or Western Han dynasty”; added Period Two as “Warring States period”; Date changed from “3rd-1st century BCE” to “475 BCE–9 CE”; and added Chinese caption by Jingmin Zhang.
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