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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
58.
AN ARCHAIC MOTTLED STONE DAGGER-AXE (GE)
Early Shang Dynasty, circa 16th-15th Century B.C.
the thick blade with convex sides and straight edges, the tapered point skewed off-center, the tang inset above narrow notches and pierced with a hole, the mottled gray limestone softly polished.
Length 7 3⁄8 inches (18.8 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 40
Compare a similar stone dagger-axe unearthed from a Shang grave at Zhengzhou, Henan, illustrated in the excavation report, Wenwu, 1983, No. 3, p. 72, pl. 21:12.
商早期 石戈 長18.8厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第40號
