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6 新石器時代 良渚文化 錐形玉器
A JADE AWL-SHAPED ORNAMENT
Neolithic Period, Liangzhu Culture 來源：
Of slender baluster shape tapering at both ends, carved in low relief 香港張陶然先生舊藏，1972年
with three sets of stylised masks, the stone of dark brown tone with 松竹堂收藏，編號9
creamy striations.
7.6cm (3in) long 出版及著錄：
霍滿棠，《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》，香港，2011年，圖版9
HK$30,000 - 40,000
US$3,900 - 5,100 通體受沁呈褐色。器作琮形，一端鈍尖，一端雕有一小短榫，榫中鑽
有小孔。以轉角為中線，方體上淺浮雕獸面紋，造型小巧，雕琢精
Provenance: 細。浙江省餘杭縣瑤山9:7及9:9號墓曾出土三件良渚文化神人面紋玉
Cheung Tao Yin, Hong Kong, 1972 錐形器，其形制與本器類似，見《良渚文化玉器》，香港，1989年，
The Songzhutang collection, no.9 頁113及115，圖版146、147及150。另參看南京博物院藏江蘇省新沂
市花廳遺址5號墓出土一件良渚文化青玉錐形玉飾，結構相仿，飾簡
Published and Illustrated: 化神人獸面紋，見《中國出土玉器全集7》，北京，2010年，頁51。
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade,
Hong Kong, 2011, pl.9

Compare with three awl-shaped ornaments similarly carved in relief
with stylised masks near one end and the other end plain, Neolithic
period, Liangzhu Culture, excavated from tombs nos.9:7 and 9:9 at
Yaoshan in Yuhan, Zhejiang Province, illustrated in Liangzhu wenhua
yuqi, Hong Kong, 1989, pp.113 and 115, pls.146, 147 and 150. See
another example of a pale green jade awl-shaped ornament, Liangzhu
Culture, excavated from tomb no.5 at Huating site in Xinyi, Jiangsu
Province, now in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol.7, Beijing, 2010, p.51.

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