A white jade handle, Shang dynasty | 商 白玉柄形器
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October 9, 07:30 AM GMT
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60,000 - 80,000 HKD
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A white jade handle,
Shang dynasty
商 白玉柄形器
the upper part of the handle rendered with a small grip, one side gently convex and the other side flat, each side divided into three segments by ribbed lines, each segment incised with leaf-like motifs resembling a stylized cicada, vertically perforated in the centre
13.4 cm
R.H. Ellsworth Ltd, New York, 20th August 1986.
安思遠，紐約，1986年8月20日
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. 13:1.
羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版13:1
An excavated jade handle of a similar shape from Erlitou, but detailed with masks interspersed with petal motifs, is included in Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji / The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 5: Henan, Beijing, 2005, p. 9, together with a slightly later petal-decorated example discovered in the tomb of Fu Hao, p. 50, and two other Anyang inscribed handles of much simpler forms, pp. 81-82.
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