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A CELADON JADE CEREMONIAL AXE, QI
SHANG DYNASTY
of trapezoidal form, with a flat butt end flaring outwards to a bevelled curved cutting edge, each of the long sides similarly bevelled
and outlined with projections formed with teeth flanked by a pair of notches, the butt pierced with an aperture, the stone of a
yellowish olive-green colour with extensive milky-white areas accentuated with russet striations

商 青玉戚
15.3 cm, 6 in.
HK$ 100,000-200,000
US$ 12,800-25,500

PROVENANCE 來源
Hei-chi collection. 熙墀收藏
Roger Keverne, London, 2005. Roger Keverne，倫敦，2005年
EXHIBITED 展覽
Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics: 《Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Winter Exhibition, Roger Keverne, London, 2004, Ceramics: Winter Exhibition》, Roger Keverne，
cat. no. 87. 倫敦，2004年，編號87
出版
LITERATURE
羅伯特．楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器．新石器時代至
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection 清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版22
of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago,
2008, pl. 22.

A closely related jade axe from the tomb of Fu Hao is illustrated in The Jades from Yinxu, Beijing, 1981, pl. 25, no. 459.
Compare also jade axes illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pp. 176-8.

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