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Friday 19 March 2021

8.30 am (Lots 801-935)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
801
A RARE YELLOW AND BROWN JADE TAPERING TUBULAR PROVENANCE:
ORNAMENT Acquired in Hong Kong, 16 January 1995.
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH
CENTURY BC A jade ornament of this form, but of smaller size (4.7 cm. high) and more
slender proportions, from the tomb of Fu Hao at Xiaotun, Anyang, Henan,
The tapering cylindrical ornament is encircled by four hooked projections
near the broad end, and a raised band near the narrow end. The stone is of is illustrated in King Wu Ding and Lady Fu Hao, Art and Culture of the Late
beigish-yellow color with areas of dark brown color. Shang Dynasty, Taipei, 2012, p. 67, fig. II-1, where it is dated Yinxu phase
II.
2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000 晚商/西周早期 黃褐玉管形飾
來源:
於1995年1月16日購自香港。