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Lot Essay
For a comparable example, see Asian Art in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, The Inaugural Gift, Washington, p. 87, fig. 43.
Details
An altered jade axe, fu
Han dynasty
Carved to the sides with notches and flaring towards the curved and tapered cutting edge, pierced at the top with a small aperture, altered in burial to an opaque buff colour suffused with grey and brown inclusions
9.6 cm. long
Han dynasty
Carved to the sides with notches and flaring towards the curved and tapered cutting edge, pierced at the top with a small aperture, altered in burial to an opaque buff colour suffused with grey and brown inclusions
9.6 cm. long
Provenance
Sir Michael Wright, England.
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