J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
94.
AN ARCHAIC JADE CUP WITH INCISED DECORATION
Late Spring and Autumn Period, 6th-5th Century B.C.
of tall cylindrical form, the straight sides very evenly worked and smoothly polished, with a thin turquoise disc inset as the base, cut through the side with a pair of small rectangular slots to receive a handle now lost, finely incised with a complex repeating pattern of interlocking oblique lines and tightly curled scroll motifs interspersed with oval ‘dragon eyes’ all over the exterior, the interior plain and softly polished, the onion green translucent stone of even tone with scattered cloudy buff spots of alteration from long burial.
Height 5 inches (12.8 cm)
The distinctive incised linear pattern on this cup is associated with the Qin State during the late Spring and Autumn period.
Compare, for example, fragments of a jade cong incised with a very similar pattern, excavated in 1986 from tomb no. 1 of the Duke of Qin at Nanzhihui village, Fengxiang county, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Shaanxi chutu Dong Zhou yuqi (Eastern Zhou Jades Unearthed in Shaanxi), Beijing, 2006, p. 79, no. FN28.
春秋晚期 秦式龍紋玉杯 高12.8厘米
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94.
AN ARCHAIC JADE CUP WITH INCISED DECORATION
Late Spring and Autumn Period, 6th-5th Century B.C.
Height 5 inches (12.8 cm)