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A NEOLITHIC JADE BRACELET (ZHUO)
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A NEOLITHIC JADE BRACELET (ZHUO)

Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300 – 2250 B.C.

with plain narrow flattened sides, the angles gently squared and the surface softly polished, the pale onion-green jade with scattered white mottling throughout.

Diameter 3 58 inches (9.2 cm)

Compare the jade bracelet of similar form and size excavated in 1987 from the Liangzhu site at Yaoshan, Zhejiang province, illustrated in Liangzhu yizhi qun kaogu baogao (Reports of the Group Sites at Liangzhu), Vol. I, Yaoshan, Beijing, 2003, p. 286, col. pl. 403, with a line drawing on p. 141, pl. 175, and a description on p. 142. The same jade bracelet is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 1, Primitive Society, Shijiazhuang, 1992, p. 174, no. 253, with description on p. 299.

新石器時代   良渚玉鐲   徑 9.2 厘米

13.
A NEOLITHIC JADE BRACELET (ZHUO)

Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300 – 2250 B.C.

Diameter 3 58 inches (9.2 cm)

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