JADE CEREMONIAL AXE

Estimated Value:

600 € - 1.000 €

Schätzpreis:

2.600 €

Description:

China, Neolithic, Dawenkou Culture
Ca. 230 (210) x 56 x 5 mm
Gray-blue, mottled, somewhat translucent jade, elongated trapezoidal with one sharply cut each, long and narrow side, the other narrow side blunt, the back thick.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired in the 1990s from E. & J. Frankel, New York
Publ. Zeileis, "Selected Chinese Jade from Seven Millennia," 1994, no. 5, p. 7.
The cut and polish are of fine quality. A comparison "Kuei" of similar jade, with also three perforations arranged as here, but additionally one in the longitudinal axis, can be found in the Shanghai Museum, publ. Treasures of the Shanghai Museum 1983, no. 10
Very slightly chipped

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