A jade anthropomorphic figure Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty | 商至西周早期玉人

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A jade anthropomorphic figure

Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty

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depicted seated upright with his arms resting on his bent knees, surmounted by a pair of furcated curved horns, the reverse skilfully incised with scrollwork, the stone of yellowish-green colour with calcified patches

4.2 cm

For a related jade kneeling figure, see an example of comparable size, with similar facial features but lacking the horns, in the Harvard Art Museums (no. 1943.50.317 [https://hvrd.art/o/204794]), published in Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum Cambridge, MA, 1975, cat. no. 121.

A jade anthropomorphic figure Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty | 商至西周早期 玉人

A jade anthropomorphic figure Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty | 商至西周早期玉人