Late Neolithic period

Lot 201. Property from a Hawai private collection. A rare archaic dark green jade ceremonial blade (Yazhang), Late Neolithic period. Length 34.5 cm. Estimate 5,000 - 8,000 USD. Lot Sold 19,050 USD. © Sotheby's 2023 Provenance: E&J Frankel, New York, 1980-81. Note: See a closely related jade blade of a slightly smaller size, attributed to the Neolithic period, Shimao culture, Shaanxi province, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published on the Museum's website (accession no. 新00125945).... [Lire la suite]

Lot 12. Three Neolithic mottled dark gray stone axes, fu, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.; 4 1/2, 5 1/8 and 6 1/8in (11.5, 13 and 15.5cm) lengths (3). Sold for US$3,570 (Estimate US$1,000-US$1,500). © Bonhams 2001-2023 Note: Stone axes with finely polished surface were made for ceremonial purposes. Following the forms of farming tools and weapons, they represent power in agriculture and in war. Although made of stone rather than jade, the choice of the material, the precision of the cut,... [Lire la suite]

'Homecoming. Cycladic treasures on their return journey'. Photo: Paris Tavitian © Museum of Cycladic Art. ATHENS.- The antiquities presented –ten marble figurines and five vases made of marble, steatite and clay– cover a wide chronological range, from the times of the Late Neolithic period to those of the Early Cycladic II period (c. 5300 – 2400/2300 BC). The figurines depict solely the female figure and belong to types and varieties corresponding to the styles of each period (schematic, precanonical, canonical),... [Lire la suite]

 Lot 102. A painted pottery storage jar, Late Neolithic period, Majiayao culture (ca. 3300–2050 BC). Height 10¼ in., 26 cm. Estimate: 2,500 - 3,500 USD. Lot sold: 15,120 USD. © Sothebys. Provenance: Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997). Wou Lien-Pai Museum, coll. no. E.1.1. Literature: Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Hong Kong, 2011, pl. 46. Sotheby's. A Journey Through China's History. The Dr Wou Kiuan... [Lire la suite]

Lot 101. A painted pottery jar, Late Neolithic period, Majiayao culture (ca. 3300–2050 BC). Diameter 6¼ in., 16 cm. Estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 USD. Lot sold: 1,764 USD. © Sothebys. Provenance: Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997). Wou Lien-Pai Museum, 1968-present, coll. no. E.2.2. Sotheby's. A Journey Through China's History. The Dr Wou Kiuan Co.llection Part 1, New York, 22 March 2022

Lot 100. A painted pottery jar, Late Neolithic period, Majiayao culture (ca. 3300–2050 BC). Height 8⅛ in., 21 cm. Estimate: 2,500 - 3,500 USD. Lot sold: 27,720 USD. © Sothebys.  Provenance: Glendining, London, 15th October 1959, lot 65 (part lot). Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997). Wou Lien-Pai Museum, 1968-present, coll. no. E.1.2. Literature: Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Hong Kong, 2011, pl.... [Lire la suite]

Lot 42. A massive black jade ceremonial blade, Late Neolithic period; 56.7 cm, 22 ¼ in. Estimate: 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 HKD. Unsold. Courtesy Sotheby's. impressively worked from a dark olive-green stone with natural brown and white inclusions, the long blade skilfully rendered with a crisp thinness, the straight upper horizontal edge joined by the two slightly splayed short ends, the cutting edge very gently curved and marked with a subtle bevelled edge on each side, the blade drilled with three... [Lire la suite]

Four hardstone discs, China, late Neolithic period to Qing dynasty, 4th century BC to 1911 AD. Diameters: from 3 inches, 7.7 cm to 1 1/4 inches, 3.3 cm. © Ben Janssens Oriental Art. Four circular hardstone discs, each with a round hole cut to the centre, leaving apertures of varying widths. The largest agate slit ring is of translucent creamy white colour, while the inner edge is composed of two faceted planes, the sloped surfaces terminating into a pointed outer edge. The dark green moss agate ring similarly has two faceted planes... [Lire la suite]

Conical Parade helmet, Urartian, 9th-8th century BC. Bronze. H 30 cm. Courtesy Phoenix Ancient Art Relief decoration in repoussé of giant serpents with animal heads inclining downwards as if to protect the royal figures facing each other in the central heraldic composition, incised on each side of the winged sun disk of Shamash next to the Tree of Life. Around the band are smaller devotional figures. The iconography reflects Assyrian art, and the cultural exchanges of the time. Almost entirely... [Lire la suite]

A group of ceremonial tubes , most produced by the Liangzhu culture 良渚 (ca. 3300-2250 BCE), Late Neolithic period, ca. 5000-1700 BCE, Jade (nephrite), Gifts of Charles Lang Freer, Arthur M. Sackler, and Dr. Paul Singer. © 2016 Smithsonian Institution WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will launch a digital catalog, "Jades for Life and Death," from its extensive collection of one of the finest holdings of Chinese jades in the world Oct. 6. The first release, in a... [Lire la suite]