30 NOVEMBER 2020 | LIVE AUCTION 18964The Chang Wei-Hwa Collection of Archaic Jades - Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties

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The Chang Wei-Hwa Collection of Archaic Jades - Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties (christies.com)

The Chang Wei-Hwa Collection of Archaic Jades - Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties

 

 

AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID AND JADE-INSET BRONZE AXE, QI

SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
With a gently curved cutting edge and long notched sides, the thin jade blade is pierced with two holes and connected to the bronze socket cast with an openwork taotie mask below the plain nei with a hole and the butt with a turquoise-inlaid taotie mask.
8 1/8 in. (21 cm.) long, box

Provenance

John Sparks, London
Chen’s Curios Co., Taipei
Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1991

HKD 1,800,000 - HKD 2,500,000

Price realisedHKD 6,250,000

 

DETAILS

A VERY RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID AND JADE INSET BRONZE GE-HALBERD BLADE

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG PHASE, C. 1300-1100 BC
The jade blade is now altered to an opaque dark buff and olive-brown colour with median ridge on both sides and slightly bevelled edges, connected to the slender hafting bar of the bronze handle. The plain tang is pierced with a hole below the hilt cast in the shape of a bird's head with large hooked beak, bifurcated crest and long curled feather on the back of the neck, all inlaid in turquoise tesserae.
12 3/8 in. (31.3 cm.) long, box

PROVENANCE

C. T. Loo & Co., New York

Frank Caro, New York, 1964
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2009, lot 227

 

EXHIBITED

An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, C. T. Loo, Inc. at Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 20 January - 1 March 1950, pl. II, no. 2 (fig. 1)

4000 Years of Chinese Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, November 1958, no. 20

 Estimate  HKD 1,200,000 – HKD 1,800,000

Price realisedHKD 6,250,000

 

A DARK GREEN JADE CEREMONIAL BLADE, YAZHANG

ERLITOU CULTURE OR SLIGHTLY EARLIER
The gently waisted blade tapers towards the curved end, opposite to the tang on the other end above a pierced hole and toothed projections on either side. The stone is of a dark green colour suffused with grey veins.
12 5/8 in. (32 cm.) long, box

Price realised     HKD 2,250,000

Estimate   HKD 500,000 – HKD 700,000

AN IMPORTANT LARGE JADE GE-HALBERD BLADE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The jade is carved with a long blade asymmetrically tapering to a triangular tip, with a hole pierced below the narrower tang extending to a diagonal butt edge. The stone has altered to a mottled russet and caramel colour.
19 ¼ in. (48.9 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1998

Price realised  HKD 2,000,000

Estimate  HKD 1,500,000 - HKD 2,500,000

 

 

A CELADON JADE CARVING OF AN OWL
SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
The jade is carved in the round as an owl standing on its feet and tail, with a pair of notched horns. It is incised overall using lines in relief with scroll motifs depicting feathers.
2 in. (4.8 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1996

Price realised HKD 2,250,000

Estimate  HKD 800,000 - HKD 1,200,000