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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF QUINCY CHUANG 商代安陽時期 嵌綠松石青銅柄玉戈
A RARE JADE DAGGER-AXE IN A TURQUOISE- 來源：
INLAID BRONZE HAFT, Charlotte B. McKim 承產收藏，棕櫚灘，佛羅里達州
SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG PERIOD 紐約蘇富比1979年11月2日，編號16
26.7 cm
展覽：
PROVENANCE 《An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, arranged for
Collection of the Estate of Charlotte B. McKim, Palm Beach, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida》，
Florida. 盧芹齋，紐約，1950年，圖版III:1
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 2nd November 1979, lot 16.
香港藝術館，香港，編號7（標籤）
EXHIBITED
An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, arranged for Norton
Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, C.T. Loo, inc.,
New York, 1950, pl. III:1.
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, no. 7 (label).

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

The Shang produced a variety of weapons, primarily made
of bronze and jade, sometimes made of bone, shells and
other types of stones. Among these, the most exceptional
and rare are the ones made of jade with bronze handles,
such as the present piece. The visual appeal of this ge would
be striking, with the golden sheen of the bronze contrasting
against the vivid aqua blue of the turquoise and the luminous
and smoothly polished jade. A wide range of dagger-axes
in various forms have been discovered at Anyang, and
this particular type, with a flat tang, was prevalent during
the early phases of the late Shang dynasty. See a related
example of comparable size housed in the Shanghai
Museum; a smaller example, with much of the turquoise inlay
gone, from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg
Art Museum (accession no. 1943.51.7); and another from the
collection of the Hon. Hugh Scott, sold twice in our rooms,
first in our New York rooms, 7th December 1983, lot 37;
then again in these rooms, 22nd April 2021, lot 46. Compare
also a slightly smaller example, from the collection of Baron
and Baroness von Oertzen, sold twice at Christie’s London,
4th November 2008, lot 117 and 3rd November 2020, lot 1.

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