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

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Past Exhibition

Ancient Chinese Jade

March 15-29, 2018

126.
AN ARCHAIC JADE ‘ARCHER’S RING’ ORNAMENT

Western Han Dynasty (220 B.C. – A.D. 9)

carved with linked comma-spirals on the exterior, ‘T’-scrolls on the concave interior and a bird-head dragon in openwork at the border.

Length 2 316 inches (5.5 cm)

Compare the jade ‘archer’s ring’ excavated in 1986 from the Western Han royal tomb at Beidongshan, Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, illustrated in Da Han Chu wang (Chu Kings of the Great Han Dynasty), Beijing, 2005, pp. 300-303. Another similar jade ‘archer’s ring’ in the Freer Gallery of Art is illustrated by Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Washington, D.C., 1982, p. 164, no. 111.

西漢 韘形玉珮 長5.5厘米