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fig. 6 lot 2708 fig. 7 lot 2710
圖六 拍品 2708 號 圖七 拍品 2710 號
二、原始治玉時期 illustrations were completed by Li in 1891 at the request
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of British doctor Heber R. Bishop. In the drawings,
史前時期的治玉工藝還不十分明確，但從出土的玉器 Li portrayed scenes of craftsmen working on jades as
看，此時治玉的基本工序：採玉、開璞、成形、鑽孔、 well as depictions of the important tools that were
鏤刻、雕紋、鑲嵌、打磨、拋光等均已出現。 used. These illustrations represented a pictorial guide
in the jade carving process, expounding the techniques
新石器時代，華夏大地上生活著一個個氏族、部落、 with drawings and text in thirteen steps including
王國。受生產力水準和自然地理環境的限制，形成一 pounding the sand, grinding the sand, sawing open the
個個較為封閉的文化圈。而中華大地恰巧玉礦資源豐 rough jade boulder, the slicing saw, the shaping wheel,
the grinding wheel, hollowing the interior, carving
富，故而不同文化地區的玉料來源多是「就地取材」
ornamental designs, the diamond borer, openwork
或「就近取材」。如紅山文化玉器的玉料來源經過調
carving, piercing holes, the wooden polishing wheel and
查檢測，基本能夠確定為產自東北岫岩一帶的透閃石 the leather polishing wheel. The first two processes were
玉料，以河磨子料為主。而西北齊家文化玉器所用的 on one page with the remaining 3 to 13 steps placed on
玉料，可能出自甘肅馬銜山、馬鬃山及三危山等玉礦 succeeding single pages (figs. 4 & 5).
所產的閃石玉料，有籽料也有海拔較低易於開採的山
Whilst the first four phases mentioned above are
料。兩地玉料以此次拍賣的紅山文化帶齒動物面紋飾 developmental stages for archaic jades, it is the jieyusha
（圖六）與齊家文化玉璧（圖七）為代表。 and tuo that are the two main topics in which we focus
our attention. Judging from the four phases of ancient
開璞成形主要使用線切割或片切割法切割玉材。所謂 jade carvings and modern production of jades (the fifth
線切割主要用的是砂繩切割，也可以用皮條切割，是 phase), it is evident that craftsmanship plays a significant
典型的以柔克剛範例。以麻繩加解玉砂加水即能將一 role in determining the temporal origin of archaic
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