J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
63.
A LARGE FRAGMENTARY JADE CEREMONIAL DAGGER-AXE (GE)
Early Shang Dynasty, circa 16th-15th Century B.C.
in two pieces, the tapering blade with lightly beveled edges, the square tang inset above two small projecting teeth, the mottled pale green stone with gray inclusions, smoothly polished.
Lengths 8 1⁄4 inches (22 cm); 11 1⁄4 inches (28.5 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 41
Compare the large jade ge unearthed at the site of Panlongcheng, an early Shang dynasty city in present day Lijiazui, Huangpi, Hubei province, illustrated in Panlongcheng—1963~1994 fajue baogao (The Panlongcheng Site: Report of Archaeological Excavation from 1963-1994), Beijing, 2001, col. pl. 19:2, pl. 53:2 in Vol. II, with description and line drawing on pp. 179-180, pl. 119:2 in Vol I. Compare also the similar jade ge unearthed from the tomb of Changzikou, buried in the early Western Zhou period with a rich variety of Shang dynasty artifacts, illustrated in Luyi Taiqinggong Changzikou mu (Taiqinggong Changzikou Tomb in Luyi), Zhengzhou, 2000, col. pl. 72:1, with description and line drawing on pp. 156-157, pl. 130:2.
商早期 玉戈殘件 長22、28.5厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第41號
