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Green Jade CELT

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Asian Antiques Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,300.00 USD
Green Jade CELT
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in the Gallery, and tie bids go to the earliest bidder. All proceeds will go 100% to the World Peace Foundation Building Fund of Hadley, MA.
Thickly formed from lovely Celadon-green nephritic Jade this axe-form has a nicely tapered large hole and is 4-1/4" long and 2-1/2" at its widest. Probably hafted on a shaft and used as ritual authority symbol, the artifact is late Neolithic or Shang period (c. 2500-1500BC). Yunnan province and made from material available there in ancient times....its source dried up and not available today. See other pieces in the provincial museum of similar material.