Lot 185: A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE CYLINDER Neolithic Liangzhu culture or later

A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE CYLINDER

Neolithic Liangzhu culture or later

Thickly carved and very slightly concave on the sides, an area on the outer edge possibly reduced in antiquity, the stone with natural veins and inclusions, the surface softly polished, wood stand.


3 1/8in (8cm) diam; 3 1/8in (8cm) high

新石器時期良渚文化 或更晚 青玉褐斑筒形器



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Gift of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, 2015

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-present




來源：

佛羅倫斯 (1920-2018) 及赫伯特·歐雲 (1917-2016) 伉儷（Florence and Herbert Irving）贈，2015 年

大都會藝術博物館，2015 年迄今



Compare the very similar jade cylinder with smoothed chips on its edges, from the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung and bequeathed to the British Museum, illustrated by Rawson,
Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 147, no. 6:2, attributed to the Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture and described as a bracelet.



Compare also the jade cylinder of this type with a gentle concave curve, sold by J.J. Lally & Co.,
Ancient Chinese Jade, 2018, no. 37, noted by the author a similar example discovered in 1977 from the Liangzhu sites at Zhanglingshan, Jiangsu, illustrated in
Compendium of Chinese Jades, vol. 1, Shijiazhuang, 1992, p. 180, no. 260.

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