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

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Past Exhibition

Ancient Chinese Jade

March 15-29, 2018

13.
A NEOLITHIC JADE RING (HUAN)

circa 2500-2000 B.C.

with plain flat sides and squared rims, the green stone mottled in white, the softly polished surface with encrusted earth from burial.

Diameter 4 38 inches (11.2 cm)

Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr, acquired in Beijing, 1943
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 19

A similar jade ring unearthed from a Neolithic site at Lushanmao, Shaanxi province, is 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. 109, described as Taosi culture.

新石器時代 玉環 徑11.2厘米
來源 羅樾教授1943年購於北京
   藍理捷1993特展圖錄第19號