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2722 後石家河文化 約公元前2100-1600年 青玉神祖面飾
A VERY RARE CELADON JADE
ANCESTOR MASK 來源
養德堂珍藏，台北，入藏於 1995 年以前
POST SHIJIAHE CULTURE, CIRCA 2100-1600 BC
展覽
The plaque is carved to one side with an anthropomorphic face, 國立故宮博物院，《羣玉別藏》，台北，1995年，圖錄圖版
detailed with powerful round eyes, widespread mouth revealing 18號
large pointed fangs and scrolled flanges extending outwards from
the mask. 著錄
3 æ in. (9.5 cm.) wide, box 鄧淑蘋，《羣玉別藏》，台北，1995年，圖版18號

HK$800,000-1,200,000 華盛頓賽克勒藝術館及芝加哥藝術學院各藏一件雕工繁複的玉神祖面
US$110,000-150,000 飾，其線圖著錄於鄧淑蘋著，1999年國立故宮博物院出版《羣玉別藏
續集》，頁35，插圖30:1, 2，其中作者推斷為石家河文化的柄形器。另
PROVENANCE 可參考兩件國立故宮博物院藏的玉神祖面飾（購玉820、621），同樣定
石家河文化晚期，著錄於2012年台北出版《敬天格物- 中國歷代玉器導
The Yangdetang Collection, Taipei, acquired prior to 1995 讀》，圖版5-4-1、5-4-2號。

EXHIBITED

National Palace Museum, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese
Jades, Taipei, 1995, Catalogue, pl. 18

LITERATURE

Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades,
Taipei, 1995, pl. 18

Compare to two elaborately carved jade anthropomorphic masks, both
attributed to the Shijiahe Culture, in the collections of Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery and Art Institute of Chicago; their line drawings illustrated in
Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, National
Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, p.35, pl. 30:1, 2, where the author
speculates they functioned as handles of some sort. Refer also to two
jade masks in the National Palace Museum Collection, both dating to
the late Shijiahe Culture (acquisition no. gouyu 820 and 621), illustrated
in Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth- Chinese Jades through the Ages,
Taipei, 2012, pl.s 5-4-1 and 5-4-2.

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