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4 新石器時代 良渚文化 玉冠飾
A JADE ‘CROWN’ ORNAMENT AND THREE JADE AXE-HEADS 及商早期 玉斧一件及玉錛兩件
The ornament Neolithic Period, Liangzhu Culture; the axe-heads early
Shang Dynasty 來源：
The crown-shaped angular plaque in the form of an inverted trapezoid, 1978年 （冠飾）及1981年（斧及兩件錛）得自香港古董商黎來先生
the top pierced with an oval aperture and the bottom with three tiny （1926-2012年）
holes, the finely polished stone of a translucent pale green tone with 松竹堂收藏，編號10-13
extensive areas of creamy-white calcification, the crowned-shaped
ornament 7.7cm (3in) long; together with three blades of plain form, 出版及著錄：
each with a bevelled edge in various tones of olive-green, two of them 霍滿棠，《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》，香港，2011年，圖版10-13
with a pierced hole, the longest axe-head 7.8cm (3in) long. (4).

HK$12,000 - 15,000 玉冠飾青玉質，局部鈣化呈白色，器扁平，上大下小呈倒梯形，上有
US$1,500 - 1,900 一孔，下有三孔，應為鑲嵌飾物。浙江省餘杭市後頭山遺址21號墓曾
出土一良渚文化冠狀玉梳背，形制同樣為倒梯形，可資參考，見《中
Provenance: 國出土玉器全集8》，北京，2010年，頁59。
Acquired from Lai Loy (1926-2012), Hong Kong, in 1978
(crown-shaped ornament) and in 1981 (three axe-heads) 兩件玉錛及一件玉斧皆青玉，一件局部鈣化，另兩件受沁呈褐色，均
The Songzhutang collection, nos.10-13 厚梯形，底端刃口斜直漸薄，其中兩件有對鑽小孔，應皆為實用工
具。商代墓葬中曾有形制相類的梯形玉錛出土，見江西省新幹縣大洋
Published and Illustrated: 洲商墓出土一件梯形青玉錛，現藏於江西省博物館，著錄於《中國出
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, 土玉器全集9》，北京，2010年，頁22。
Hong Kong, 2011, pls.10-13

See a related example of a crown-shaped ornament excavated
from tomb no.21 at Houtoushan site in Yuhang, Zhejiang Province,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China,
vol.8, Beijing, 2010, p.59.

For an example of a trapezoidal axe-head from the Shang dynasty,
see one excavated from a tomb at Dayangzhou in Xingan, Jiangxi
Province, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed
in China, vol.9, Beijing, 2010, p.22.

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