Lot 923
923
A SMALL PALE GREYISH GREENISH-WHITE JADE RING, HUAN
A SMALL PALE GREYISH GREENISH-WHITE JADE RING, HUAN

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

Details
A SMALL PALE GREYISH GREENISH-WHITE JADE RING, HUAN
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
Each side is crisply carved with a field of comma spirals between raised plain borders at the inner and outer edges. The semi-translucent stone is well-polished and has opaque ivory-colored alteration on one side and patches of the same alteration and some brown alteration on the reverse.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
B. K .Wong, Hong Kong, 24 May 1987.
Literature
Nicole De Bisscop, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Brussels, 1995, p. 51, no. 23.
Exhibited
Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Kredietbank, Brussels, 25 October - 17 December 1995; Kredietbank Luxembourg, 1 February - 13 April 1996, no. 23.

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Lot Essay

Compare the similar huan of slightly larger size (7.45 cm.) illustrated in A Catalogue of the National Palace Museum's Special Exhibition of Circular Jade, Taipei, 1995, p. 117, no. 72. See, also, the example that appears to be carved from similar yellowish jade, of slightly smaller size (5 cm.), in the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, illustrated in Chinese Jade Carving, Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1983, no. 99.

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