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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
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A NEOLITHIC JADE SLIT RING (JUE)
circa 3500-2500 B.C.
with flat sides, thicker at the slit and tapering thinner at the closed side, with squared edges, the cloudy white stone polished to a high gloss.
Diameter 1 5⁄8 inches (4.3 cm)
Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr, acquired in Beijing, 1944
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 4
Compare the slit rings of similar form excavated at Majiabang culture (circa 5000-3000 B.C.) sites, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 1, Shijiazhuang, 1992, p.p. 70-72.
Compare also the Neolithic white jade slit ring of similar form in the British Museum, illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 121, no. 2:3.
新石器時代 玉玦 徑4.3厘米
來源 羅樾教授1944年購於北京
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第4號
