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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
61.
AN ARCHAIC JADE CEREMONIAL DAGGER-AXE (GE)
Shang Dynasty, circa 13th-11th Century B.C.
the thin blade with lightly beveled edges and shallow medial ridge curving gently to the point which is set off center, the tang pierced with a hole for hafting and cut with serrated teeth at the butt end, the stone of opaque olive-tan color, with darker and lighter mottling.
Length 10 1⁄8 inches (25.7 cm)
Ex Sotheby’s, New York, 3 December 1986, lot 2
Ex Collection Richard and Jean Salisbury
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 34
A jade dagger-axe of similar form excavated in 1980 from a late Shang dynasty tomb in Laoniupo, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 2, Shijiazhuang, 1993, p. 117, no. 164. Another dagger-axe of the same type in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in the same volume, op. cit., p. 122, no. 170.
商 玉戈 長25.7厘米
來源 紐約蘇富比1986年12月3日2號拍品
Richard and Jean Salisbury舊藏
藍理捷1994特展圖錄第34號
61.
AN ARCHAIC JADE CEREMONIAL DAGGER-AXE (GE)
Shang Dynasty, circa 13th-11th Century B.C.
Length 10 1⁄8 inches (25.7 cm)