J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
39.
THREE SMALL NEOLITHIC JADE ORNAMENTS
Dawenkou or other primitive culture, circa 3rd Millennium B.C.
including two flat oblong plaques each pierced with a central aperture and with tiny points carved at the corners, and a larger fan shape plaque with convex polished sides also pierced with a central aperture, all carved from cloudy tan colored stone.
Lengths 1 - 1 1⁄4 inches (2.5 – 3.1 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 26
Compare the similar fan shape jade plaque discovered at a Neolithic site in Lushanmao, Shaanxi province, 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. 119, described as Taosi culture.
新石器時代 大汶口或其它原始文明小玉飾三件 長2.5 – 3.1厘米
來源 藍理捷1994特展圖錄第26號
39.
THREE SMALL NEOLITHIC JADE ORNAMENTS
Dawenkou or other primitive culture, circa 3rd Millennium B.C.
Lengths 1 - 1 1⁄4 inches (2.5 – 3.1 cm)