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12 商晚期 玉戈
A JADE DAGGER-BLADE, GE
Late Shang Dynasty 來源：
The attractively polished stone carved with a slightly raised ridge 紐約戴潤齋，1963年
running along the length of the blade with sharp bevelled edges, drilled 賽克勒舊藏 (1913 - 1987)
with a hole near the tang, the stone of a deep cream tone with pale 倫敦佳士得（南肯辛頓），2009年5月15日，拍品編號17
green markings. 松竹堂收藏，編號14
15cm (6in) long

HK$30,000 - 40,000 出版及著錄：
US$3,900 - 5,100 霍滿棠，《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》，香港，2011年，圖版14

Provenance: 玉質幾乎整體鈣化呈不透明牙黃色。器體扁薄呈長條形，援部前鋒呈
J.T.Tai & Co., New York, 1963 銳利三角形，援、內中部起一條脊線，兩邊低凹，援端有一圓孔。玉
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) 戈是夏商周流行的一種禮儀儀仗用器，商代婦好墓曾出土過大量造型
Christie’s South Kensington, 15 May 2009, lot 17 不一的戈形玉器，共三十九件，可見玉戈在商代貴族生活中佔有重要
The Songzhutang collection, no.14 的地位。此件玉戈通體磨製光潔，線條流暢，屬商代禮儀用玉中的精
品。
Published and Illustrated:
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, 北京故宮博物院藏一件商代玉戈與本器形制類似，見《故宮博物院藏
Hong Kong, 2011, pl.14 品大系：玉器編2：夏商周》，北京，2011年，頁44，圖版22。另參
考大英博物館藏何鴻卿爵士收藏一件商代或西周早期玉戈，曾拍賣於
Jade ge of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties were mainly used 紐約蘇富比，1983年12月6日，拍品編號162，並著錄於J. Rawson，
for ceremonial purposes. A significant number of jade ge were 《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，1995年，頁195，
found in the tomb of Fu Hao, at Yinxu in Anyang, Henan Province, 編號10:25。
demonstrating the importance of the ge ritual blades during the
Shang dynasty. Compare a jade blade of similar form, Shang dynasty,
illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade
2 Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.44, pl.22. See
another example of a ceremonial ge of similar form in the collection
of Sir Joseph Hotung, previously sold at Sotheby’s New York, 6
December 1983, lot 162, and illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Jade
from the Neolithic to the Qing, 1995, p.195, no.10:25.

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