J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
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A NEOLITHIC JADE CEREMONIAL AXE (CHAN)
circa 3000-2000 B.C.
of thick oblong shape with convex sides, the blunt butt end with a small hole above a larger aperture drilled from both sides, the long sides with rounded edges, the cutting edge beveled, the dark green stone with black mottling, the surface smoothly polished.
Length 9 1⁄2 inches (24.1 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 5
Compare the Neolithic axe of similar form also carved from black mottled dark green jade, illustrated by Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 33, no. 2.
新石器時代 玉鏟 長24.1厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第5號