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Jade. China, Liangzhu culture, c.3300-2200 BC
This axe has an especially beautiful, clearly designed and almost rectangular form. The body is slender and was certainly very difficult to work. These axes, fu or also called yue, are distinctive due to the elegance of the body design. Here the large areas are ground in delicate arches and the “rectangle“ slightly trapezoid, die blade noteably curved. The circular opening for the axe handle is ground from both sides and displays corresponding traces. This opening (diam. 3 cm) appears to be the full moon rising through passing clouds over an arched valley. The pattern resp. grain of this axe is lovely on both sides, lively and also varied in color A green-grey to yellow-brown interaction, dark to blackish areas as well as silvery deposits. In focused light are only smaller areas with yellow to red translucence. These hatchets with well-rounded edges (except for the straight upper rand) were also worn as symbols of status resp. then placed in the tombs. 玉鉞 - 良渚文化, 公元前33世紀-前32世纪 長 17,3 厘米
LENGTH 17,3 CM, WIDTH AT BLADE 10,7 CM
From an Austrian-Hungarian collection
Accompanying this jade, is an expertise by Univ. Prof. Dr. Filippo Salviati. Also from him, is the following information about comparative examples from publicized excavations or offered from specialist literature: Typologically, this axe can be ascribed to the late Neolithic culture of Liangzhu, whose archaeological sites have yielded many examples of jade weapons of this type. A comparative example is offered by a Liangzhu culture axe excavated in 1984 at Shaojingshan, Kunshan, Jiangsu, in Mou Yongkang, Zhongguo yuqi quanji - 1 Yuanshi shehui (Chinese Jades: Vol.1, Early Societies), Hebei Meishu Chubanshe, Shijiazhuang 1993, no.130. Another similar example is in the collections of the National Museum of History, Taiwan, reproduced in J. Johnston, and Chan Lai Pik, 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade, Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, San Antonio Museum of Art, 2011, no.6.