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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN For a very similar depiction on a handle-shaped object in the
Palace Museum, see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin
11 Quanji(Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum)
A CELADON AND PALE RUSSET JADE ‘SHAMAN’ COMB Jadeware I, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 104-105, no. 86
Western Zhou Dynasty, Dawenkou Culture
Of rounded rectangular outline, with fourteen graduated flattened Western Zhou jade carvings with their partially humanoid motifs,
teeth along one edge, the shaft carved on both sides in extremely evolved from Shang prototypes which depict a crouching human with
low relief with a shaman-like image, the head with a large swathe of bent arms framing the torso above the sharply bent legs, and wearing
neatly-channeled hair, the body stylized with neatly cut channels and a headdress. Two such carvings of curved outline from the Shang
terminating in a dragon-like-tail. dynasty tomb of Lady Fu Hao at Anyang are illustrated in The Jades
2 9/16in (6.5cm) wide from Yinxu, Beijing, 1982, pls. 109 and 113.

$10,000 - 15,000 See Christie’s, Hong Kong, Chinese Jades from the Yangdetang
Collection, Part II, 28 November 2018, lot 2744 for a partially human-
form pendant of curved outline; and another sold Christie’s, New York,
西周 大汶口文化 神人紋玉梳 16 March 2016, lot 911, both from the Western Zhou period and
which share some characteristics in the crouching figures depicted.

A late 5th century BCE comb with incised scroll decoration now in
the Hubei Provincial Museum was un-earthed in the famous tomb
of Marquis Yi of Zeng, excavated 1978 in Suixian, Hubei and found
directly underneath Marquis Yi’s head. A group of five jade ornaments
including a Zhou dynasty comb were offered at Sotheby’s, New York,
18 March 2014, lot 155.
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