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A YELLOWISH-CELADON JADE
HUMANOID FIGURE FORM
ORNAMENT
SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
The jade is carved in the round as a seated humanoid figure with
elbows resting on bent knees, and hair rising in an exaggerated
triangular crest. Both sides are incised with double-line details.
There is a hole pierced just beneath the mid-section. The semi-
translucent stone is of a yellowish-celadon tone with minor areas
of opaque inclusion.
3 º in. (8.4 cm.) high, box
HK$200,000-250,000 US$26,000-32,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Chicago in 1993
Compare to a very similar jade carving of a humanoid figure seated in
the same pose with hair similarly ending in a crest bequested by Alfred
F. Pilsbury to The Minneapolis Institute of Art, and illustrated in Chinese
Jades: Archaic and Modern from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
London, 1977, p. 56, no. 21 (fig. 1).

fig. 1 Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
商 玉人珮 圖一 明尼阿波利斯藝術博物館藏品
來源
1993 年購於芝加哥
比較 Alfred F. Pillsbury 遺贈明尼阿波利斯藝術博物館一件商代玉人，其
造型、姿態及細節處理上與此皆十分接近，見《Chinese Jades: Archaic
and Modern from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts》，倫敦，頁 56，圖版
21 號（圖一）。

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