A GREYISH-GREEN JADE AXE

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25.09.2020 14:00UTC -04:00
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ID 395632
Lot 1731 | A GREYISH-GREEN JADE AXE
A GREYISH-GREEN JADE AXE

NORTHWEST CHINA, 2ND MILLENNIUM BC

The axe has two large hafting holes each drilled from one side near the tang. Together with a large, flat, olive-green jade axe, Southeast China, 3rd millennium BC, probably reshaped in antiquity, which has a small hole and the remains of a second small hole at the hafting end, and features remnants of numerous cutting marks.

5 3/8 in. (13.5 cm.) high, cloth box

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