J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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TWO JADE FLUTED CYLINDERS
Shang Dynasty, 13th – 12th Century B.C.
each well-carved with six shallow flutes on the exterior of the thin straight walls, the interiors plain and well-polished, one cylinder with a narrow projecting flange carved with four blunt teeth around the waist and with slightly thicker rims at both ends, both cylinders made from very similar jade of pale greenish-tan color.
Height 1 1⁄2 inches (3.9 cm) each
A similar jade fluted cylinder with toothed flange around the waist unearthed from the tomb of Fu Hao (d. circa 1200 B.C.) at Anyang, Henan province is illustrated in the excavation report Yinxu Fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, col. pl. 37, no. 1, with description on p. 187. Another jade fluted cylinder of similar form with flange around the waist unearthed in 1977 at Anyang, Henan province, from tomb no. 18, is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades) Vol. 2, Shang and Western Zhou, Shijiazhuang, 1993, p. 81, no. 107, with description on p. 255.
Compare also the two jade fluted cylinders unearthed from the tomb of Fu Hao and illustrated in the excavation report, op. cit., pl. 154, no. 6, with an ink rubbing of each illustrated on p. 186, pl. 93, nos. 15 and 18, and descriptions on p. 187; and two jade fluted cylinders illustrated by Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 136, nos. 171-172.
商 圓篐形玉飾二件 各高 3.9 厘米
