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FOUR SMALL JADE DAGGER-BLADES, GE
Shang Dynasty
Each sharply carved in the form of a pointed ge dagger-axe with
bevelled sides, pierced with a hole at the centre near one end; the
smallest blade with a further hole at the side, 5.5cm (2in) long; the
smallest jade of a pale green tone, one of a semi-translucent tone
suffused with russet inclusions, and the other two of opaque ivory
tone, the largest 9.6cm (3 3/4in) long. (4).
HK$50,000 - 60,000
US$6,400 - 7,700
Provenance:
The smallest: Cheung Tao Yin, Hong Kong, 1982
The other three: A.W.Bahr, Weybridge, 1963
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987)
Christie’s South Kensington, 15 May 2009, lot 17 (part lot)
The Songzhutang collection, no.18
Published and Illustrated:
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade,
Hong Kong, 2011, pl.18
商 小玉戈四件
來源：
小玉戈：香港張陶然先生舊藏，1982年
三件大玉戈：英國威布里治收藏家白威廉巴爾舊藏，1963年
賽克勒舊藏（1913-1987）
倫敦佳士得（南肯辛頓），2009年5月15日，拍品編號17（拍品之一）
松竹堂收藏，編號18
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18
These miniature, blade-shaped pendants although small in size, bear 一件為青玉，另三件尺寸較大的玉戈幾乎整體鈣化呈黃褐色。器體扁
the features of the full-size ge, including a raised central rib, bevelled 平，呈長條形，三件有中脊，鋒部呈三角形，上下刃減地，通體磨製
edges and an asymmetrical pointed tip. A number of examples 光潔，形制規矩，為小型玉戈中的精品。這類小玉戈在商代已流行，
were excavated from tombs in the western sector at Anyang, Henan 曾見河南省安陽西部出土過，見J. Rawson，《Chinese Jade from the
Province, see J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，頁195。
London, 1995, p.195.
參考兩件商代晚期小玉戈，一件出土於山東省滕州市前掌大203號墓
See two related examples of a miniature jade ge (4.65cm long) （長4.65厘米），另一件出土於同一區的120號墓（長10.9厘米），
excavated from tomb no.203 at Qianzhangda in Tengzhou, 見《中國出土玉器全集4》，北京，2010年，頁69及103。
Shangdong Province; and a green jade blade of similar form but
slightly larger (10.9cm long), excavated from tomb no.120 at the same
site, late Shang dynasty, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Jades Unearthed in China, vol.4, Beijing, 2010, pp.69 and 103.
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