A miniature jade carving of a 'bottle horn', Shang dynasty or later | 商或以後 玉錐形器
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A miniature jade carving of a 'bottle horn',
Shang dynasty or later
商或以後 玉錐形器
modelled in a form with a tapered shaft terminating in a small bud, resembling a bottled horn of a mythical beast, minimally incised in double lines suggesting two partially overlapping petals above a subtle ridge, the base perforated, the stone of a caramel brown colour
2.6 cm
Christie's New York, 29th/30th November 1984, lot 411.
紐約佳士得1984年11月29-30日，編號411
British Museum, London, on loan, 1995.
大英博物館，倫敦，借展，1995年
Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 12:6.
羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版12:6
Dainty in size, the present piece appears to be an attachment to a larger work, possibly made in material other than jade, as suggested by Jessica Rawson (ibid, p. 213). A comparable jade carving of this form but incised with short, parallel lines, was discovered in the late Shang capital of Anyang; for a line drawing, see '1975 nian Anyang Yinxu de xin faxian [New discoveries in Yinxu, Anyang, 1975]', Archaeology, 1976, no. 4, pp. 263-272, p. 269, fig. 11, no. 6. Compare the chevron- and scroll-decorated horns on the 'mask' cover of a Shang dynasty he vessel, reputedly excavated from Anyang, now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, accession no. F1942.1a-b.
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