EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

It is extremely rare to find a jade jue of this thickness and with such crisp and lively carving. A closely related example was excavated in a tomb belonging to a nobleman in Guo State, one of the smaller states founded at the beginning of the Western Zhou dynasty, currently exhibited at the Guo State Museum in Sanmenxia, Henan province.