J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
66.
AN ARCHAIC JADE CONG
Shang Dynasty, circa 1600-1050 B.C.
with square plain exterior sides ending in solid projecting corners below the raised circular rims of the cylindrical interior, the light green stone mottled in white and brown, smoothly polished all over, with encrusted earth from burial.
Height 3 5⁄16 inches (8.4 cm)
Ex Hirano Kotoken, Ltd. Tokyo 1989
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 22
A cong of similar form excavated from the Shang royal tomb of Lady Fu Hao (circa 1200 B.C.) is illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. LXXXI:3, no. 1244. Another similar cong in the British Museum is illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 151, fig. 2, dated to the Neolithic or Shang period, circa 2000-1200 B.C.
商 玉琮 高8.4厘米
來源 東京平野古陶軒1989年
藍理捷1993特展圖錄第22號
