SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC

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A YELLOWISH-CELADON JADE HUMANOID FIGURE FORM ORNAMENT
SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
The jade is carved in the round as a seated humanoid figure with elbows resting on bent knees, and hair rising in an exaggerated triangular crest. Both sides are incised with double-line details. There is a hole pierced just beneath the mid-section. The semi-translucent stone is of a yellowish-celadon tone with minor areas of opaque inclusion.
3 ¼ in. (8.4 cm.) high, box

来源

Acquired in Chicago in 1993

拍品专文

Compare to a very similar jade carving of a humanoid figure seated in the same pose with hair similarly ending in a crest bequested by Alfred F. Pilsbury to The Minneapolis Institute of Art, and illustrated in Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, London, 1977, p. 56, no. 21 (fig. 1).

SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC

拍品专文

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