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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 商 玉刀
A MOTTLED JADE BLADE, 來源：
SHANG DYNASTY
巴爾（1877-1959年）收藏
metal display stand 賽克勒（1913-87年）收藏
32 cm 紐約佳士得1994年12月1日，編號88
紐約佳士得2002年9月20日，編號214
PROVENANCE
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦
Collection of A.W. Bahr (1877-1959).
Collection of Arthur M. Sackler (1913-87). 美國重要收藏
Christie’s New York, 1st December 1994, lot 88. 香港蘇富比2015年4月5日，編號2824
Christie’s New York, 20th September 2002, lot 214.
Eskenazi Ltd, London. 出版：
An important American collection. 樂提，《中國玉器源流考》，倫敦，1936年，
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th April 2015, lot 2824. 圖版XIV:A
LITERATURE
Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages,
London, 1936, pl. XIV:A.

HK$ 500,000-700,000
US$ 64,000-89,500

It is rare to find a neolithic jade blade of this type, that 成於新石器時代、後經重新打磨之玉刀稀見無多。
has been recarved at a later date. It is likely to have been 商末加工上古玉器，改形易制，尤琢刀成圭，間或磨
reworked in the late Shang dynasty, modifying the blade 圭為刀。此刀兩孔均開自一側，因位置不同而知後經
slightly from one shape to another, in particular from dao-
blade to gui-blade and sometimes vice versa. The reworking 調改。依加工工藝推斷，玉刀現存形態可溯至二里頭
of this blade is identified by the different locations of the 文化乃至商初。
perforated holes, both of which are drilled from one side
only. This reworking suggests a date to a post-Erlitou and 出版可見數例，玉石肌理與此件頗似，如 Richard
early Shang context. C. Bull 伉儷收藏一例，展覽於《Arts of the Chou
Comparable blades of similar stone have been published; Dynasty》，史丹福大學博物館，1958年，編號18，
one in the collection of Mr and Mrs Richard C. Bull, included 及 Rafi Y. Mottahedeh 夫人收藏一例，展覽於《Chinese
in the exhibition, Arts of the Chou Dynasty, Stanford
University Museum, 1958, cat. no. 18. Another in the Jade throughout the Ages》，維多利亞與艾伯特博物
collection of Mrs Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, was included in the 館，倫敦，1975年，編號27。
exhibition, Chinese Jade throughout the ages, Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, 1975, cat. no. 27.

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