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PROPERTY FROM THE PEONY COLLECTION
A GREEN JADE AXE, YUE
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LIANGZHU CULTURE
of flaring form with a gently bevelled rounded cutting edge,
the opposite end pierced through with a hole, of translucent
dark green jade with white flecks
13.6 cm, 5⅜ in.
EXHIBITED
Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 34.

LITERATURE
Roger Keverne (ed.), Jade, London, 1991, p. 55, fig. 11.
HK$ 30,000-40,000
US$ 3,850-5,100

新石器時代良渚文化 青玉鉞
展覽：
Angus Forsyth 及 Brian McElney，《Jades from China》
，東亞藝術博物館，巴斯，1994年，編號34
出版：
Roger Keverne 編，《Jade》，倫敦，1991年，頁55，
圖11
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PROPERTY FROM THE PEONY COLLECTION
A SPINACH-GREEN JADE ‘STANDING FIGURE’
PLAQUE
WARRING STATES PERIOD – WESTERN HAN
DYNASTY

depicted with stylised facial features, its rectangular body
encircled with a carved line representing a belt
9.9 cm, 3⅞ in.
EXHIBITED
Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 128.
See a similar figurine in the Taipei Palace Museum,
attributed to Warring States Period – Western Han dynasty,
museum no. 473.
HK$ 10,000-15,000
US$ 1,300-1,950

戰國至西漢 碧玉人形牌飾

展覽：
Angus Forsyth 及 Brian McElney，《Jades from China》
，東亞藝術博物館，巴斯，1994年，編號128
台北故宮博物院藏一相類戰國至西漢玉人，藏品編號
473。
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