Lot 691. A pale celadon jade hand implement, Neolithic period, Majiabian culture (c. 5000-3500 BC); 12.5 cm, 4 7/8  in. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 HKD. Lot Sold 1,625,000 HKD (207,594 USD). © Sotheby's.

the bowed front rendered with fluted sides, the stone of translucent pale green tone with calcified opaque white areas. 

Exhibited: Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 49.

Literature: Roger Keverne (ed.), Jade, London, 1991, p. 69, fig. 34.