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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 oblong shape with convex sides and rounded edges, drilled with two biconical holes lined up near the rough butt end, the dark green stone with cloudy inclusions.
Length 8 1⁄8 inches (20.5 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 6
Compare the larger oblong Neolithic jade axe in the British Museum carved from very similar stone, illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 170, no. 10:2.
新石器時代 玉鏟 長20.5厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第6號