J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

Ancient Chinese Jade

March 15-29, 2018

14.
A NEOLITHIC JADE RING (HUAN)

circa 2500-2000 B.C.

with smoothly polished flat thin sides, polished down in antiquity over original fissures where the translucent green stone shades to tan brown.

Diameter 4 34 inches (12 cm)

Ex Collection of Professor Max Loehr (1903-1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 17

Compare the similar green jade ring discovered at the Taosi culture site at Lushanmao, illustrated in Yu hun guo hun: yuqi, yu wenhua, Xia dai Zhongguo wenming zhan (Soul of Jade, Soul of the Nation: Exhibition of Jade, Jade Culture, and the Xia Dynasty Civilization in China), Hangzhou, 2013, p. 120.

新石器時代 玉環 徑12厘米
來源 羅樾教授(1903-1988)舊藏
   藍理捷1993特展圖錄第17號