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A BLACK AND WHITE ‘STRIPED’ MARBLE AXE, YUE, LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD-EARLY BRONZE AGE
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09月11日 下午5点 开拍
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A BLACK AND WHITE ‘STRIPED’ MARBLE AXE, YUE, LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD-EARLY BRONZE AGE
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

China, c. 2200-1900 BC. The broad axe flaring towards the slightly beveled and rounded cutting edge with the butt end pierced with a large central aperture drilled from one side. The opaque stone presenting a unique and beautiful arrangement of white stripes against a dark brownish-black ground with deep russet veins.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Good condition with wear, signs of prolonged burial, traces of weathering, old smoothened losses, and one chip to the cutting edge. The stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into small hairline cracks.

Weight: 310.3 g
Dimensions: Length 23.9 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 related marble tiger with a similar natural pattern of black and white veining, dated to the Western Zhou dynasty, 11th-9th century BC, 14.6 cm long, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1985.214.93.

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