新石器時代 玉斧

l'épaisse lame de forme arrondie, les faces convexes au brillant poli, le bord supérieur coupé droit et les trois autres biseautés, percée dans sa partie supérieure d'un large orifice aux bords droits, la pierre de couleur chamois rehaussée de belles taches gris bleuté

河南出土 (羅樾筆記記錄)
北京私人舊藏 (羅樾筆記記錄)
1944年12月購自北京尊古齋主黃濬 (黃伯川，1880-1952年) (羅樾筆記記錄)
羅樾 (1903-1988年) 舊藏
J. J. Lally & Co.，紐約，1993年

《Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others》，J. J. Lally & Co.，紐約，1993年，編號10

J. J. Lally & Co.，《Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others》，紐約，1993年，編號10

There are two ca. 2.2x1 cm and a ca. 2.8x1.5 cm old shallow chips to the lower edges of the blade (visible in the catalogue illustration). There is a ca. 1x1cm large flaw to the stone on one side of the blade. The blade is beautifully polished and some parts of the stone a reflective silvery-grey colour. The stone is a more bluish-grey colour than the catalogue illustration suggests.
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