A LARGE CHINESE ARCHAIC JADE AXE

Neolithic Period

新石器時代 大玉鉞

Carved from a piece of light green, dark green and russet jade, flat rectangular form with softly bevelled edges, the rounded sides subtly flaring towards the curved blade edge, pierced through with an aperture towards the narrow end

25cm high, 16.5cm wide

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PROVENANCE:

Austrian Private Collection;

Galerie Zacke, 2017;

來源：

奧地利私人收藏；

扎克藝廊（Galerie Zacke），2017年；

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REFERENCES:

Compare an axe collected by Bishop White in China, Royal Ontario Museum and reproduced in Doris Dohrenwend, Chinese Jades in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1971, p,42;

Another comparable example is an axe from the Joseph Hotung collection, which is attributed to the Neolithic cultures of South China and published in Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, London 1995, no. 10:6.