J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
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A NEOLITHIC JADE BRACELET (ZHUO)
circa 2nd Millennium B.C.
of shallow cylindrical form with half-round thick bands around the outer rims, the translucent pale yellowish green stone with cloudy tan and brown mottling.
Diameter 2 7⁄8 inches (7.3 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 16
A similar jade bracelet discovered in the tomb of Fu Hao (circa 1200 B.C.) is illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. CXLIX, no. 1043. The simplicity of the form of the Fu Hao bracelet and the present example suggests a pre-Shang date. A number of jades in the Fu Hao tomb and other Shang burials are regarded as “heirloom” pieces carved in pre-Shang times, as discussed by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 146.
新石器時代 玉鐲 徑7.3厘米
來源 藍理捷1994特展圖錄第16號