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This piece represents an exceptionally rare example of A similar jade profile with headdress excavated from 高古玉器中，雕人者極罕。迄今為止，成千上萬發掘 安陽小屯墓M331出土相類高冠神人側面飾，現存中
human representation on archaic jades. Of the thousands Tomb M331 in Xiaotun, Anyang is now in the collections 出土的古玉中，可辨認為飾以人像者，不過數十，當 央研究院歷史語言研究所（藏品編號R009118）。商
of archaic jades excavated to date, no more than a few of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 中側面之例，更是屈指可數。上承新石器時代羽人特 王武丁之妻婦好，驍勇善戰，用兵有道，其墓有兩高
dozen feature recognisably human subjects and, of these, (accession no. R009118). Compare also two related human
only a handful do so in profile. Purported to be derived from profiles with stylised eyes and headdresses excavated from 徵，此品琢雕臣字巨目，炯炯有神，頭頂高冠，翎毛 冠側面人形飾，見《殷墟婦好墓》，北京，1980年，
Neolithic designs featuring semi-human figures with wings, the famous, richly furnished late Shang tomb of the high- 卷曲出廓，精巧入微，裝飾圖案與商代青銅禮器有不 圖版132。
the figure stares out with a large, imposing eye reminiscent ranking imperial consort and military commander Lady Hao, 少相通之處。參考華盛頓國立亞洲藝術博物館藏嵌
of the taotie motif and sports an elaborate avian headdress. illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu [The Tomb of Lady Hao of 綠松石青銅戈（藏品編號F1950.9），龍柄上出廓羽
These rare features can also be observed in the visual Yinxu], Beijing, 1980, pl. 132. 冠與此相類，圖見梅原末治，《殷墟》，東京，1964
language of Shang bronze wares. Compare, for example, 年，圖版33。
a bronze ge with turquoise inlay at the National Museum
of Asian Art (accession no. F1950.9), illustrated in Sueji
Umehara, Yin hsu: Ancient Capital of the Shang Dynasty at
An-yang, Tokyo, 1964, pl. 33, which features a similar spined
design along its ‘dragon’ handle.

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