A DARK SPINACH-GREEN JADE CONG

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A DARK SPINACH-GREEN JADE CONG
SHANG DYNASTY (16TH-11TH CENTURY BC)

The thick-sided square-section facetted exterior left undecorated, terminating in a short circular foot and mouth, the interior aperture of characteristic circular section, the highly polished stone of an attractive mottled dark sea-green tone

3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Alex Vervoodt, Amsterdam

Literature

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 2

Exhibited

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

Lot Essay

Compare a cong of similar form in the British Museum illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade, London, 1995, p. 151, fig.2; compare also a somewhat larger undecorated spinach-green jade cong included in the exhibition, Chinese Jade, An Important Private Collection, Spink and Sons, November 1991, in the catalogue, no. 23.

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