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A RARE LIANGZHU-STYLE BEIGE JADE CONG Liangzhu yu gudai Zhongguo yuqi xianshi de wu qian nian
wenming [Liangzhu and Ancient China: Jades Displaying a
the cylindrical central shaft abutted by four hollow square 5,000-Year Civilization], Palace Museum, Beijing, 2019, cat.
shafts rising along its sides, each square shaft carved with no. 6.
concave and convex bands with faint traces of two registers
of taotie masks with incised lines and eyes, the calcified $ 40,000-60,000
stone with russet and white variegation
Width 3 in., 7.7 cm
良渚風格玉琮
PROVENANCE
來源：
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世 (1978年逝) 收藏
LITERATURE
出版：
Alfred Salmony, Chinese Jade Through the Wei Dynasty, New
York, 1963, pl.XIII, fig. 1 a-b. Alfred Salmony，《Chinese Jade Through the Wei Dy-
Na Zhiliang, Gu yu jian cai [Connoisseurship of Ancient nasty》，紐約，1963年，圖版XIII，圖1 a-b
Jade], Taipei, 1980, pl. 25c. 那志良，《古玉鑑裁》，台北，1980年，圖版25c
This form of this cong appears as four distinct square
sections abutting a cylinder. A cong of similar form but
with solid and plain square shafts from Fu Hao’s tomb was
published in China’s Social Sciences and Archaeological
Research Institute, ed., Yinxu Fuhao mu / Tomb of Lady Hao
at Yinxu in Anyang, Beijing, 1980, pl. 82.4.1230. Compare two
other related examples with solid and plain square shafts:
one attributed to the Shang dynasty or later, is published
in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade—From the Neolithic to
the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 7:4; the other, attributed to the
Shang dynasty, is in the collection of the Royal Ontario
Museum, Toronto, and published in Chen Shen and Gu Fang,
Ancient Chinese Jades from the Royal Ontario Museum,
Beijing, 2016, pl. 042.
Another example with solid peripheral shafts and mask
decoration from the Liangzhu Culture was exhibited in The present lot illustrated in Alfred Salmony, Chinese
Jade Through the Wei Dynasty, New York, 1963, pl. XIII
本拍品錄於Alfred Salmony，《Carved Jade Through
the Wei Dynasty》，紐約，1963，圖版 XIII.

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A RARE PALE GRAY AND RUSSET JADE published in Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and Gu Fang, The Jade
BRACELET Age: Early Chinese Jades in American Museums / Yu qi shi
dai : Meiguo bo wu guan cang Zhongguo zao ji yu qi, Beijing,
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY 2009, pp 54-55, pls 3-12 and 3-13. For a Western Zhou wide
of cylindrical form with one end straight cut and the other jade bracelet also carved with motifs in fine double lines, see
end delicately polished to a concave bevel along the interior one offered in our Hong Kong rooms, 9th October 2020, lot
rim, the exterior sides finely incised with a continuous wavy 89.
band edged in fine double lines and with an additional double
line coursing along the center, a double-lined oval carved $ 20,000-30,000
in the negative space within each U-shaped undulation of
the band, the stone a pale gray tone with extensive areas of 西周 玉波曲紋鐲
variegated russet
Diameter 2¾ in., 7 cm 來源：
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世 (1978年逝) 收藏
PROVENANCE
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
Although the patterns found on the present jade are not
uncommon in the Western Zhou dynasty, it is extremely rare
to find them on bracelets. The overall form is reminiscent of
Neolithic jade bracelets, especially those from the Liangzhu
Culture. Compare two Liangzhu examples in the collection
of National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C. (acc. nos F1917.385 and F1919.46),

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