CHINA / 5000 YEARS
CHINA / 5000 YEARS
Property from an American Private Collection
Lot Closed
March 28, 04:19 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An inscribed oracle bone
Late Shang dynasty
商末 甲骨刻辭一片
one side inscribed with wu xu bu yi geng zi, and the other side with er qiang wei zi shang zi, fitted wood box (3)
刻辭:
戊戌卜 翌 庚子
二 羌 隹子商茲
Length 3¾ in., 9.5 cm
Collection of Mary Celia and Clarke Edwin Harris, acquired in China prior to 1940, and thence by descent.