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59.
A JADE FINIAL WITH TURQUOISE INLAY
Western Zhou Dynasty (1027 – 771 B.C.)
of truncated conical form, with slightly waisted sides flaring to a flat circular top inlaid with a turquoise disc at the center, the sides incised with a double-line collar below the rim and widely spaced curving and slanting lines ending short of the tapered base, a wide central longitudinal channel pierced from below, the pale yellowish-white jade showing remains of earth and cinnabar.
Length 1 1⁄8 inches (2.9 cm)
Compare the jade finial of very similar form attached to a long hollow jade hairpin, now in the Henan Provincial Museum, excavated at Xiasi, Xichuan county, Henan province, illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 5, Henan, Beijing, 2005, p. 196. The same hairpin was illustrated in the excavation report, Xichuan Xiasi Chunqiu Chu mu (Chu Tombs of the Spring-Autumn Period at Xiasi, Xichuan), Beijing, 1991, pl. 40, no. 1, with line drawings on p. 101, pl. 83, no. 5.
西周 鑲綠松石玉簪帽 長 2.9 厘米
59.
A JADE FINIAL WITH TURQUOISE INLAY
Western Zhou Dynasty (1027 – 771 B.C.)
Length 1 1⁄8 inches (2.9 cm)