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AN OPAQUE IVORY-COLORED JADE AXE, YUE, NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LIANGZHU CULTURE
奥地利
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AN OPAQUE IVORY-COLORED JADE AXE, YUE, NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LIANGZHU CULTURE
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published:
1. Jean-Paul Desroches (ed.) et al, Two Americans in Paris. A Quest for Asian Art, Paris, 2016, p. 38-39, no. 30.
2. Pointe-à-Callière Museum, Two Americans in Paris. A Quest for Asian Art, Montréal, 2016, exhibition album, p. 21.

Exhibited:
1. Pointe-à-Callière Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Montréal, 17 November 2016-19 March 2017.
2. Kimbell Art Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Fort Worth, Texas, 4 March-19 August 2018.

China, c. 3300-2200 BC. The jade axe (yue) is carved with slightly rounded lateral edges, flaring slightly towards the softly beveled, rounded cutting edge. There is a wide hafting hole drilled from both sides. The stone of a mottled ivory-white and creamy-brown tone with dark gray specks and patches and a bluish-gray tone.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, minor signs of weathering and erosion, nibbles to edges, one small loss to the top edge, the stone with natural fissures, some of which may have developed into small hairline cracks. The stone with russet-colored thick encrustations and areas of corrosion, most likely residues from an iron source interred nearby, indicating a prolonged period of burial.

Weight: 302.4 g
Dimensions: Height 19.7 cm

While collectively termed 'axe' in English, jade axes have variations of translations in Chinese. Ceremonial jades of a trapezoidal form with a straight or curved edge would be named yue, produced for a long duration of time from the Neolithic period to the Zhou dynasty. As a ceremonial weapon, jade yue symbolized power in ancient Chinese culture. This jade yue would have been attached to a wood pole to be carried by officials as an emblem of authority.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related Liangzhu jade axe with rounded edge, 18.5 cm long, in the Harvard Art Museums, object number 1943.50.1, and illustrated by Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, cat. no. 13.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 19 March 2015, lot 488
Price: USD 35,000 or approx. EUR 41,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: An opaque ivory-colored jade axe, China, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture, 3rd millennium BC
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, manner of carving, and stone. Note the size (12.3 cm).

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