A large archaic black jade blade, zhang


Neolithic, probaly Longshan Culture The thickly cut blade with a slightly waisted outline tapering from two short projecting flanges, lan toward the carved end, the hilt with a drilled hole, the opaque-brownish stone smoothly polished with some black inclusions, box. 32.9cm (13in) long. (2).
|新石器時代 或龍山文化 黑褐色玉璋Compare with two archaic jade blades, zhang, Longshan Culture, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 1 Neolithic Age, Beijing, 2011, pp.174-175, nos.164 and 167.黑褐色玉，光素無紋，打磨細膩，手感柔潤，璋首一面呈斜坡，口呈月牙形，闌外凸，柄略微內收，柄端不規則，近闌處穿孔，穿上大下小。璋為禮器，器型源自戈、鉞、錛等實用器。玉璋在中原各地區皆有所見，可知當時使用之廣泛。此件玉璋可與北京故宮所藏兩件龍山文化玉牙璋比較之，見《故宮博物院藏品大系玉器篇1》，北京，2011年，頁174及175，編號164及167。