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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT
Lot 245
A RARE JADE 'HUMAN MASK' FITTING, SHANG DYNASTY
Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD
A RARE JADE 'HUMAN MASK' FITTING
SHANG DYNASTY
商 玉人面形飾
of flattened form, the human face depicted with thick lips, broad nose, oval eyes and bushy brows, flanked by a pair of large
ears and surmounted by straight hair formed by vertical incisions, the underside flat, pieced horizontally with a 'bull's nose'
aperture for attachment, the extensively calcified stone of a grayish-beige color
Height 1⅝ in., 4.2 cm
Provenance
C.T. Loo, New York, by 1938.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978), acquired January 1952.
來源
盧芹齋，紐約，1938年之前
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏，購於1952年1月
Exhibition
An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, C.T. Loo & Co., Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, 1950, pl.XVI, no. 2.
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