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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 商末 玉戚
A CALCIFIED JADE CEREMONIAL 來源：
FLANGED AXE, QI, 大維威爾（1871-1952年）收藏，巴黎，
LATE SHANG DYNASTY 收藏編號 D.W. 3292
13.8 cm
巴黎蘇富比2015年12月16日，編號11
PROVENANCE
Collection of David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris,
coll. no. D.W. 3292.
Sotheby’s Paris, 16th December 2015, lot 11.

HK$ 150,000-200,000
US$ 19,200-25,600

Many small jade axes have been recovered from late Shang 安陽殷墟遺址出土大量玉戚，其中若干重光自婦
sites at Anyang, among them several in the tomb of Fu 好墓，可溯至商末公元前十二世紀，可見《殷墟
Hao, ca. 1200 BC, compare Yinxu yuqi [Jades from Yinxu], 玉器》，北京，1982年，圖版25。由戚身小孔可
Beijing, 1982, pl. 25. The small hole indicates that such axes
were fastened to a bronze shaft or handle as illustrated 推知，玉戚曾以青銅軸桿為柄，有現存例為證，
by surviving examples, compare a very similar example 如一例，Pillsbury 雅藏，錄那志良，《Chinese Jades:
from the Pillsbury Collection, published in Na Chih-Liang, Archaic and Modern》，明尼阿波利斯，1977年，
Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern, Minneapolis, 1977, 頁52-53，圖版15。另比一戚，亦呈長方形，Luboshez
pp. 52-53, pl. 15. See another small jade axe of similar 寶蓄，錄 Harriet McNamee，《Chinese Art from the
elongated form from the Luboshez Collection, illustrated in
Harriet McNamee, Chinese Art from the Luboshez Collection, Luboshez Collection》，馬里蘭，1972年，頁40-41，
Maryland, 1972, pp. 40-41, pl. 14 and fig. 19. 圖版14及圖19。

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