A GROUP OF CARVED BONE AND POTTERY PIECE MOLD FRAGMENTS SHANG DYNASTY |

each of irregular shape, the most elaborate carved in high relief with taotie or kuilong motifs and finely detailed with incised leiwen and linear patterns, others incised with similar designs, traces of red pigment, all stored in a box with thirty-one customized recessions to accommodate the fragments, Japanese purple silk cloth (60)

Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 

Each fragment is only a section of a larger whole (as illustrated and described). Some fragments have further breaks.
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