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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
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A NEOLITHIC JADE CONG
circa 2nd Millennium B.C.
of evenly worked cylindrical form with squared rims, carved with twin clusters of narrow horizontal ribs in three very slightly projecting panels evenly spaced around the exterior of the thick sides, the interior well finished, the translucent pale green stone mottled in olive brown, and with cloudy tan areas of alteration from burial.
Diameter 3 inches (7.6 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 21
A very similar jade cong of smaller size in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Huanghe liuyu shiqian yuqi tezhan tulu (Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Prehistoric Jade from the Yellow River Valley), Taipei, 2001, pp. 168-169, no. 4-12. Another smaller jade cong with similar decoration found in the tomb of Lady Hao (circa 1200 B.C.) is illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. CXLIX, no. 1096.
新石器時代 鐲形玉琮 徑7.6厘米
來源 藍理捷1993特展圖錄第21號
