A JADE CARVING OF A TIGER
A JADE CARVING OF A TIGER

SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC

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A JADE CARVING OF A TIGER
SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
The recumbent tiger is carved with its tail curled upwards and its legs tucked under the body, detailed with incised with double-line details to the body. The altered jade is now opaque and of ivory colour.
3 ¼ in. (8.3 cm.) wide, box
来源
Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1998

拍品专文

For a similar jade carving of a tiger in the same pose, compare to the example excavated from the tomb of the Shang queen Fu Hao at Yinxu, Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in Yinxu Fuhao mui (The Jades from the tomb of Fu Hao at Yinxu), Beijing, 1980, pl. 135, no. 1 (406).

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