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Ancient Chinese Jade

March 15-29, 2018

AN ARCHAIC MOTTLED STONE DAGGER-AXE (GE)
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AN ARCHAIC MOTTLED STONE DAGGER-AXE (GE)

Early Shang Dynasty, circa 16th-15th Century B.C.

the thick blade with convex sides and straight edges, the tapered point skewed off-center, the tang inset above narrow notches and pierced with a hole, the mottled gray limestone softly polished.

Length 7 38 inches (18.8 cm)

Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 40

Compare a similar stone dagger-axe unearthed from a Shang grave at Zhengzhou, Henan, illustrated in the excavation report, Wenwu, 1983, No. 3, p. 72, pl. 21:12.

商早期 石戈 長18.8厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
   藍理捷1993特展圖錄第40號
 

58.
AN ARCHAIC MOTTLED STONE DAGGER-AXE (GE)

Early Shang Dynasty, circa 16th-15th Century B.C.

Length 7 38 inches (18.8 cm)

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