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A RARE GREY AND RUSSET JADE CONG
Neolithic Period/Shang Dynasty
The thick-walled cong carved with rectangular, flat sides, projecting
corners and a shallow collar at each end, the pale greyish-green stone
with areas of brown and buff opaque inclusions.
7.3cm (3in) wide.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 72,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

新石器時代/商 玉琮

Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 18 May 2018, lot 241 (part lot)

來源：倫敦蘇富比，2018年5月18日，拍品編號241（部分）

See related examples illustrated in Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth
– Chinese Jades through the Ages, Taipei, 2011, pl.4-4-13, in the
collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei; see also J.Johnston
and Chan Lai Pik, 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade, Taipei, 2011, no.18,
for an example in the collection of the National Museum of History,
Taiwan.

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FIVE ARCHAIC JADE AND HARDSTONE CARVINGS
Neolithic Period to Shang Dynasty
Comprising a green and black jade axe blade, Neolithic period,
16.5cm (6 1/2in) long; two hardstone axe blades, Neolithic period,
the largest 16cm (6 1/4in) long; a green and russet jade circular cong,
1 Neolithic period, 9cm (3 1/2in) diam; and a serrated amber-toned jade
bi disc, Neolithic period to Shang dynasty, 5cm (2in) wide. (5).
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

新石器時代至商 玉斧、石斧、玉琮及玉璧 一組五件

Provenance (the top right blade): Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1993
Sothebys’ Paris, Early Chinese Jade and Hardstone Carvings Including
The Collection Of Max Loehr, 15 December 2016, lot 22 (part lot)
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: J. J. Lally & Co., Chinese
Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr
and Others, New York, 1993, no.11

來源（右上石斧）：羅樾教授（1903-1988）舊藏
紐約古董商J. J. Lally & Co.，1993年
巴黎蘇富比，「中國古代玉及石器 - 包括羅樾珍藏」拍賣，2016年12
月15日，拍品編號22（部分）

展覽著錄：J. J. Lally & Co.，《Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes
from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others》，紐約，1993
年，編號11

Top left blade: compare with a serpentine axe excavated from Sipo
village in Lantian County, Xi’an, in 1986, illustrated in Fuxi Sun, Xi’an
Wenwu Jinghua Yuqi, Xi’an, 2004, p.20. See also a further Liangzhu
culture example illustrated in Shanghai Museum: Ancient Chinese Jade
Gallery, Shanghai, 1998, p.7.

Bottom left blade: compare with a similar blade illustrated by Na
Chih-Liang, Zhongguo Gu Yu Tushi, Taipei, 1990, pl.135B. Note also
a blade illustrated in The Panlongcheng Site: Report of Archaeological
Excavation from 1963–1994, vol.2, Beijing, 2001, pl.142, fig.2. See
also a final example illustrated by A.Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades
from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, Chicago,
1952, pl.XL11.1.
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