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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 247

A LIANGZHU- STYLE BEIGE JADE PL AQUE, SONG – QING DYNASTY
Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000 USD

A LIANGZHU-STYLE BEIGE JADE PLAQUE
SONG – QING DYNASTY
宋至清 良渚風格玉牌

of flattened trapezoid form, the edges tapering slightly toward a short, indented ridge along the top pierced with three apertures
for attachment, incised with a taotie mask to one side, and a band of archaistic angular phoenix-and-kuilong motif to the other, the
stone of a grayish-celadon tone with an area of brown to one corner

Length 2½ in., 6.5 cm

Provenance
Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 15th January 1970.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
Nagatani，Inc.，芝加哥，1970年1月15日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
Jade fittings of this form have been excavated from various Liangzhu Culture sites, such as one discovered from tomb no. 77 at
Zhaolingshan, Kunshan, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum, published in Gu Fang, The Complete Collection of

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