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A YELLOW JADE HORNED FIGURE
LATE SHANG–WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
seated upright with his arms resting on his knees, the head detailed with slit eyes, a straight nose and a small mouth, surmounted
by a pair of curved horns, the stone of a yellowish green tone
商末至西周 黃玉神人坐像
6.1 cm, 2⅜ in.
HK$ 80,000-120,000
US$ 10,200-15,300

LITERATURE 出版
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection 羅伯特．楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器．新石器時代至
of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版168
2008, pl. 168.

Early jade carvings of figural form are extremely rare. Only a small number of Shang dynasty examples has been found,
including a larger figure unearthed from the tomb of Fu Hao, with hornlike extensions on the head, illustrated in Wen Fong
(ed.), The Great Bronze Age of China, New York, 1980, cat. no. 37. The current horned figure is also closely related to a Shang
jade figure in Harvard Art Museum, illustrated in Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the
Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, cat. no. 119. but the stylised
treatment of the breasts on the Winthrop figure clearly denote it as a female figure. See also two figures in the collection
of the British Museum, stylistically similar and closely comparable in the texture and colour of the stone, illustrated in the
collection of the British Museum, published in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p.
282, fig.1, attributed to the Western Zhou dynasty.

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