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A SHORT JADE CONG Undecorated jade cong seem to have been favored in the Shang
Late Neolithic Period – Shang Dynasty dynasty. Compare for three closely related example illustrated by
The thin-walled cylinder carved in square form with a pair of grooves Rawson in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London,
framing each corner, the translucent olive-green stone evenly 1995, p.154, nos. 7:3, 7:4 and fig. 1.
polished, with tan mottling to edges from burial.
2 7/8in (7.2cm) wide See also the plain jade cong of slender form and tall neck from the
Winthrop Collection, illustrated by So, Early Chinese Jades in the
$5,000 - 7,000 Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2019, p. 160, no. 18, where
the author discusses the evolution of using cong as a ritual object
in various regions throughout the millennium perhaps resulting a
新石器時代晚期/商代 玉琮 different interpretation based off the Liangzhu prototype.

Provenance
A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals, Toronto, 2014，November 25th
Fall Catalogue Auction, Lot 1062
From the Irving Langleb Collection, collected in Japan in the 1950’s

出處：
多倫多 A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals 拍賣會，2014 年11月25
日，拍品第1062號
Irving Langleb 舊藏，1950 年代購自日本

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