Junkunc: Chinese Art
Junkunc: Chinese Art
Junkunc: Chinese Art
A dark green jade blade (Yazhang), Late Neolithic period | 新石器時代末 玉牙璋
Lot Closed
September 27, 01:57 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A dark green jade blade (Yazhang)
Late Neolithic period
新石器時代末 玉牙璋
with a later added eighteen-character inscription possibly from the Zhou dynasty
銘文：
隹王乙亥史伯鼎用祈匄百祿屖邿(待定)子孫(待定)永寶
Length 15 in., 38.1 cm
Collection of C.T. Loo (1880-1957).
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10th-11th October 1962, lot 242.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10th-11th October 1962, lot 242.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
The name Shi Bo also appears in the inscription of a late Western Zhou dynasty bronze ding, published in Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 5, Shanghai, 2012, no. 02424.