A celadon jade axe, yue, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture | 新石器時代 良渚文化 青玉鉞

Ku Ngar Antique Limited, Hong Kong, 27th January 1996.

古雅閣，香港，1996年1月27日

The present yue origionally should include two holes for easy fixation. Similar yue excavated from the site of Liangzhu culture were often found with the upper hole partially missing. Compare one Liangzhu-culture jade yue in similar shape of the present lot’s lower part, and with half of the upper hole preserved, now in the Zhejiang Antique Archaeology Institute, illustrated in illustrated in Liangzhu and Ancient China: The 5000 Year Civilization Demonstrated by Jades, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2019, p. 171, cat. no. 56.

青玉質，身扁，中間緩凸，三邊收薄，刃部銳利，上開半孔，其下對鑽小穿，略束收。 

此鉞本穿兩孔方便固定，良渚文化遺址多見上孔半殘者，如浙江省文物考古研究所藏一件良渚玉鉞可資參考，亦開兩孔，上孔半殘，身形如本件中束下展，見《良渚與古代中國：玉器顯示的五千年文明》，北京，2019年，頁171，編號56。