A RARE JADE 'HUMAN MASK' FITTING, SHANG DYNASTY

C.T. Loo, New York, by 1938.

Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978), acquired January 1952.

來源

盧芹齋，紐約，1938年之前

史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏，購於1952年1月

Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China, Berkeley, 1938, pl.XX, no. 6.

出版

Alfred Salmony，《Carved Jade of Ancient China》，伯克利，1938年，圖版XX，編號6

Boldly carved with distinctive facial features, the present piece belongs to a small group of Shang human head-form fittings sharing similar characteristics. Compare a related jade fitting rendered with similar features in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 75, where it is noted that such fittings represent the appearance of slaves in the Shang dynasty; and two others, one with incised hair, and the other without, excavated from the Fuhao tomb in Anyang, Henan province, now in the National Museum of China, Beijing, published in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang wenwu yanjiu congshu. Yuqi juan [Studies of the Collection of the National Museum of China. Jade], Shanghai, 2007, pl. 39; another in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, illustrated in Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China, London, 1982, pl.X, no. 2; and a pair without the incised hair, from a set of horse bridle ornaments, discovered from a tomb in Anyang, exhibited in King Wu Ding and Lady Hao. Art and Culture of the Late Shang Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2012, cat. no. IV-1. 

本品人面形飾面部刻畫特徵分明，出自一組少數相類商代配飾，比較一相近人面形飾例，現藏於北京故宮博物院，載於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品•全集玉器（上）》，香港，1995年，圖版75，書中記其似為奴隸像；另比兩例，其一見刻髮，其二無髮，河南安陽婦好墓出土，現存於中國國家博物館，載於《中國國家博物館文物研究叢書•玉器卷》，上海，2007年，圖版39；另一例藏於納爾遜-阿特金斯藝術博物館，堪薩斯城，圖載於 Alfred Salmony，《Carved Jade of Ancient China》，倫敦，1982年，圖版X，編號2；另一對無髮例，出自一組馬飾，安陽古墓出土，曾展於《武丁與婦好：殷商盛世文化藝術特展》，台北故宮博物院，2012年，編號IV-1。