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66. An Archaic Jade Cong
Shang Dynasty, circa 1600–1050 B.C.
with square plain exterior sides ending in solid projecting corners below the raised circular rims
of the cylindrical interior, the light green stone mottled in white and brown, smoothly polished all
over, with encrusted earth from burial.
Height 3 ⁄16 inches (8.4 cm)
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Ex Hirano Kotoken, Ltd. Tokyo 1989
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 22

A cong of similar form excavated from the Shang royal tomb of Lady Fu Hao (circa 1200 B.C.) is illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao
mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. LXXXI:3, no. 1244. Another similar cong in the British Museum
is illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 151, fig. 2, dated to the Neolithic or
Shang period, circa 2000–1200 B.C.

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