SHANG DYNASTY (C. 1600-1100 BC)

Details

A DARK SPINACH-GREEN JADE CONG
SHANG DYNASTY (C. 1600-1100 BC)
The thick-sided square-section facetted exterior is 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.
3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Alex Vervoodt, Amsterdam
The personal collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, acquired prior to 1996
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November 2007, lot 1592

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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