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16. A N eolithic Jade Ring ( Huan )
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300–2250 B.C.
with plain flattened sides and smoothly polished lustrous surface, ground thinner in antiquity over
one section, the pale green stone showing cloudy white alteration all over from burial.
Diameter 4½ inches (11.4 cm)

Compare the Liangzhu jade huan of smaller size in the collection of the Nanjing Museum, illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo
chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 7, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Beijing, 2005, p. 25.

อͩኜࣛ˾cԄଃ͗ᐑcࢰ 11.4᩶Ϸ

17. A N eolithic Jade Slit Ring ( Jue )
circa 2000–1500 B.C.
the flat plain ring with a narrow slit cut at an oblique angle through the side, the surface smoothly
polished and squared at the edges, the translucent olive green stone with cloudy tan altered areas
at the outer rim and widely scattered ‘root marks’.
Diameter 5 ⁄8 inches (13 cm)
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Compare the plain jade ring with a narrow slit excavated from Wangjiafenshan, Ningxiang, Hunan province, now in the
Hunan Provincial Museum, illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in
China), Vol. 10, Hubei, Hunan, Beijing, 2005, p. 162.
อͩኜࣛ˾c͗ᨈcࢰ 13᩶Ϸ

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