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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
51.
A NEOLITHIC JADE CEREMONIAL BLADE (CHAN)
Longshan or Dawenkou Culture, circa 3000-2000 B.C.
of oblong shape, the sides widening very slightly toward the straight cutting edge beveled on both sides, drilled with a neat circular aperture centered near the blunt end, the pale grayish-olive stone with swirling darker cloudy markings, the surface softly polished.
Length 7 1⁄4 inches (18.5 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 30
Compare the similar tablet shape Neolithic jade blade in the British Museum illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 182, no. 10:15.
Another blade of very similar form is illustrated by Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 52, no. 24.
新石器時代 龍山或大汶口玉鏟 長18.5厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第30號
51.
A NEOLITHIC JADE CEREMONIAL BLADE (CHAN)
Longshan or Dawenkou Culture, circa 3000-2000 B.C.
Length 7 1⁄4 inches (18.5 cm)