J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
22.
A NEOLITHIC JADE CEREMONIAL AXE (CHAN)
circa 2000 B.C.
the oblong blade with rounded edges, pierced with a hole drilled from both sides near the butt, tapered down to a blunted cutting edge, the ice-gray stone softly polished.
Length 6 inches (15.2 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr, acquired in Beijing, November, 1942
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 25
Compare the jade axe excavated from the burial site at Dawenkou, Tai’an, Shandong province, now in the Shandong Provincial Museum, illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 4, Shandong, Beijing, 2005, p. 14, described as late Dawenkou culture.
新石器時代 玉鏟 長15.2厘米
來源 羅樾教授1942年11月購於北京
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第25號