A MOTTLED CELADON JADE SPEARHEAD

SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1600-1100 BC

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A MOTTLED CELADON JADE SPEARHEAD
SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1600-1100 BC
The spearhead is drilled with one hole, and the mottled stone is of a brownish-celadon tone with russet and darker brown streaks and inclusions throughout.
4 in. (10 cm.) long

来源

From a private English collection.

出版

Gabriele Fahr-Becker, The Art of East Asia, 1996, vol. 1, p. 300.

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Please note the provenance for this lot should also read 'Purchased in the UK in the early 1990's'.

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Compare the present lot to a spearhead found in the tomb of Fu Hao in Anyang, illustrated in The Jades from Yinxu, Beijing, 1982, pl. 73 (see fig. 1). A similar perforated spearhead is in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Shanghai Museum: Ancient Chinese Jade Gallery, Shanghai, 1996, p. 15.