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Lot 236
A RARE RITUAL JADE XUANJI
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Schätzpreis:
4.000 €
Description:
China, Neolithic, ca. 3000 - 2000 BC.D. 9,7 cm
Honey brown jade with minor calcification, the exterior with three large sawblade-like teeth, each centered by two closely spaced protuberances.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired in the 1980s from a private collection San Francisco
Publ. Zeileis, "Selected Chinese Jades from Seven Millennia," 1994, no. 64, pp. 80-81
Cf. Clarence W. Kelley, Stones of Virtue, Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection, Dayton, 1989, cat. no. 17, pl. 16
