A LARGE CHINESE MOTTLED BUFF STONE AXE,
Lot 429 PROPERTY FROM THE ARTHUR M. SACKLER COLLECTIONS
ALL OBJECTS IN THE ARTHUR M. SACKLER COLLECTIONS WERE ACQUIRED PRIOR TO 1978. ADDITIONAL PROVENANCE, EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION MAY BE FOUND IN THE LOTS' CONDITION REPORT

A LARGE CHINESE MOTTLED BUFF STONE AXE,

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, POSSIBLY LIANGZHU CULTURE, CIRCA 2500 BC

Fermé22 June 2011

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A LARGE CHINESE MOTTLED BUFF STONE AXE,
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, POSSIBLY LIANGZHU CULTURE, CIRCA 2500 BC
10¾in. (27.3cm.) long, box

A.W. Bahr Collection, Weybridge, 1963.

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A line drawing of a stone axe of this form, from Shanghai Qingpu Fuquanshan, dated Neolithic, Liangzhu culture, c. 2500 BC, is illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 173, fig. 1 (middle bottom row).