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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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