Detail View: National Palace English: Jade fu axe
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Work ID:
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M01C00056
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Title:
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Jade fu axe
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Creation Date:
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Late Neolithic Period
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Start Year Date:
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B.C.5000
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End Year Date:
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B.C.2000
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Creation Place:
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China
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Measurements:
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Length: 12 cm; Width: 5.2 cm; Thickness: 1.13 cm
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Material:
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Jade
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Form:
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Fu (axe)
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Type:
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Jades and Other Precious Stones
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Repository:
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The National Palace Museum, Taipei
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Description:
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This jade ax shows a beautiful, warm yellow tinge on the surface, probably because it has been handled for so long. It is slender and trapezoidal in form, and it has two perforations on one end. Near the sharp edge, there is a large, oval, sheared area, on which there remains shearing marks. The sharp edge divulges a curvature, and is chipped on three spots. From the chip marks and other traces, this ax was functional, and it might have been used to chop wood and plough land.From the form and the characteristic of this jade, it can be dated to 2000-3000B.C.E., and it was probably used by inhabitants of the lower Yellow river region in the late Neolithic period. In the Qing Dynasty, it became a treasure in the collection of the Qianlong emperor. In the first two years of the Jiaqing period (1796-97) when Qianlong became the retired grand-emperor, he composed two poems for it. The poems were inscribed on the surface, and the jade was matched with a zitan wood stand.
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ImageV ID:
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M01C00056AS001
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Rights:
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Lee & Lee Communications
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