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61. An Archaic Jade Ceremonial Dagger - Axe ( Ge )
Shang Dynasty, circa 13th–11th Century B.C.
the thin blade with lightly beveled edges and shallow medial ridge curving gently to the point
which is set off center, the tang pierced with a hole for hafting and cut with serrated teeth at the
butt end, the stone of opaque olive-tan color, with darker and lighter mottling.
Length 10 ⁄8 inches (25.7 cm)
1
Ex Sotheby’s, New York, 3 December 1986, lot 2
Ex Collection Richard and Jean Salisbury
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 34
A jade dagger-axe of similar form excavated in 1980 from a late Shang dynasty tomb in Laoniupo, Xi’an, Shaanxi province,
is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 2, Shijiazhuang, 1993, p. 117, no. 164. Another
dagger-axe of the same type in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in the same volume, op. cit., p. 122, no. 170.
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