HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day

HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day

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A stone 'stepped' axe, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture | 新石器時代良渚文化 石斧

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December 8, 05:58 PM GMT

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3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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A stone 'stepped' axe, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture

新石器時代良渚文化 石斧


the elongated square-section blade with a sharp-angled cutting edge at one end, and a stepped 'tang' or handle-fitting at the other, the grey-green stone with calcified surface 

24.5 cm, 9⅝ in.

Pin Chen Tang, Hong Kong, 30th November 1987.


品珍堂,香港,1987年11月30日

Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 10:3.


羅森,《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》, 倫敦,1995年,圖版10:3