Lot 801
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A RARE YELLOW AND BROWN JADE TAPERING TUBULAR ORNAMENT
A RARE YELLOW AND BROWN JADE TAPERING TUBULAR ORNAMENT
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A RARE YELLOW AND BROWN JADE TAPERING TUBULAR ORNAMENT

LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE YELLOW AND BROWN JADE TAPERING TUBULAR ORNAMENT
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The tapering cylindrical ornament is encircled by four hooked projections near the broad end, and a raised band near the narrow end. The stone is of beigish-yellow color with areas of dark brown color.
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Hong Kong, 16 January 1995.

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Lot Essay


A jade ornament of this form, but of smaller size (4.7 cm. high) and more slender proportions, from the tomb of Fu Hao at Xiaotun, Anyang, Henan, is illustrated in King Wu Ding and Lady Fu Hao, Art and Culture of the Late Shang Dynasty, Taipei, 2012, p. 67, fig. II-1, where it is dated Yinxu phase II.

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