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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
21.
A NEOLITHIC JADE CEREMONIAL AXE (CHAN)
circa 3000-2000 B.C.
of oblong shape, with a chamfered cutting edge on one long side and one short side, pierced with a small hole near the blunt end, the stone of mottled dark green color.
Length 5 inches (12.7 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 26
Compare the larger axe of similar form in the British Museum, illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 171, no. 10:4.
新石器時代 玉鏟 長12.7厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第26號