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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
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A RARE DARK GREY-GREEN JADE BEAD
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1200 B.C.
The thick-walled bead is carved with a central biconical channel and the sides 商 青灰玉饕餮紋珠
are decorated in thread-relief with two taotie masks flanking a rectangular
來源:
crest carved with a grooved chevron design. The tops of the horns projecting
C.T. Loo & Co., 紐約
above the edge of the convex top, with two narrow grooves carved across
Frank Caro, 紐約,1964年
the base. The stone is of greyish-green colour with some small areas of buff
,
紐約佳士得, 《Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections》 2009年3月18日,
alteration.
拍品279號
1 1/4 in. (3.3cm.) wide
展覽:
£20,000-30,000 US$26,000-38,000
Norton Gallery of Art, 《An Exhibition of Archaic Jades》佛羅里達州西棕櫚灘, 1950年1月20
€22,000-33,000
日至3月1日, 圖版XIV(3)
PROVENANCE:
C.T. Loo & Co., New York.
Frank Caro, New York, 1964.
Christie's New York, Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M.Sackler Collections, 18
March 2009, lot 279.
Property from a Princely Collection.
EXHIBITED:
Norton Gallery of Art, An Exhibition of Archaic Jades, West Palm Beach,
Florida, 20 January-1 March 1950, pl. XIV (3).
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