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13. A N eolithic Jade Ring ( Huan )
circa 2500–2000 B.C.
with plain flat sides and squared rims, the green stone mottled in white, the softly polished surface
with encrusted earth from burial.
Diameter 4 ⁄8 inches (11.2 cm)
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Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr, acquired in Beijing, 1943
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 19
A similar jade ring unearthed from a Neolithic site at Lushanmao, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Yu hun guo hun: yuqi,
yu wenhua, Xia dai Zhongguo wenming zhan (Soul of Jade, Soul of the Nation: Exhibition of Jade, Jade Culture, and the Xia
Dynasty Civilization in China), Hangzhou, 2013, p. 109, described as Taosi culture.
อͩኜࣛ˾c͗ᐑcࢰ 11.2᩶Ϸc
Ը๕cᖯ⭮બ 1943ϋᒅ̏ԯ
cccᔝଣઠ 1993त࢝ྡୋ 19
14. A N eolithic Jade Ring ( Huan )
circa 2500–2000 B.C.
with smoothly polished flat thin sides, polished down in antiquity over original fissures where the
translucent green stone shades to tan brown.
Diameter 4¾ inches (12 cm)
Ex Collection of Professor Max Loehr (1903–1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 17
Compare the similar green jade ring discovered at the Taosi culture site at Lushanmao, illustrated in Yu hun guo hun: yuqi,
yu wenhua, Xia dai Zhongguo wenming zhan (Soul of Jade, Soul of the Nation: Exhibition of Jade, Jade Culture, and the Xia
Dynasty Civilization in China), Hangzhou, 2013, p. 120.
อͩኜࣛ˾c͗ᐑcࢰ 12᩶Ϸc
Ը๕cᖯ⭮બ1903-1988ᔚᔛ
cccᔝଣઠ 1993त࢝ྡୋ 17
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