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104        A RARE CALCIFIED JADE MINIATURE ‘DOUBLE-DAGGER’ PENDANT
                      SHANG / WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
                      商至 / 西周   玉雙聯戈珮

                      each blade following the form of a ge dagger, one slightly longer than the other, the beveled surface of each with three ridges
                      extending to the slightly curved tapered tips, the center of the toothed tang pierced, joined together along a short strip of the
                      adjacent edges

                      Length 3⅜ in., 8.7 cm
                      $ 6,000-8,000





                      PROVENANCE                                  來源
                      Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).  史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

                      LITERATURE                                  出版
                      Alfred Salmony, Chinese Jade Through the Wei Dynasty,   Alfred Salmony，《Chinese Jade Through the Wei
                      New York, 1963, pl. IV, fig. 4.             Dynasty》，紐約，1963年，圖版IV，圖4























                      Miniature blade-shaped pendants were produced and used during both the Shang and Zhou dynasties and a
                      number have been discovered in tombs in the western sector of Anyang and in the Yu state near Baoji, and display
                      many of the same features of the full-sized ge, including a raised central rib, beveled edges and an asymmetrical
                      tip. Miniature double-ge pendants are relatively rare, however compare one formerly in the collection of A.W. Bahr,
                      illustrated in Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China, Berkeley, California, 1938, pl. VII, fig. 4. Another from the
                      Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Harvard Art Museums was included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Jades,
                      Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975, cat. no. 68. A pendant in the form of a single ge blade was
                      included in the exhibition Early Chinese Miniatures, China House Gallery, New York, 1977, cat. no. 20, and was later
                      sold in these rooms, 6th December 1983, lot. 153.


                      此小形制玉戈，商周兩朝均曾見例，於安陽西部及鄰近                     L.   Winthrop  收藏，展於哈佛藝術博物館，《Ancient
                      寶雞市墓群中亦曾出土。出土戈例，帶脊，上下開刃，                     Chinese  Jades》，福格藝術博物館，劍橋，麻省，1975
                      尖鋒，與正常尺度玉戈特徵吻合。小形制雙聯戈甚罕，                     年，編號68。再比一單戈例，展於            China   House
                      可比一例，為 A.W.Bahr 舊藏，收錄於 Alfred Salmony,       Gallery，《Early  Chinese  Miniatures》，紐約，1977
                      《Carved  Jade  of  Ancient  China》，伯克利，      年，編號20，其後售於紐約蘇富比1983年12月6日，編號
                      加州，1938年，圖版VII，圖4。另有一例，Grenville             153。









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