Two jade tubes, Shang dynasty | 商 玉管兩件

Right:

Ku Ngar Antique Limited, Hong Kong, 3rd November 2000.

右：

古雅閣，香港，2000年11月3日

The trumpet-shaped jade tubes with slender waists were mostly produced in the Shang dynasty, possibly as ear ornaments. See two Shang-dynasty jade tubes of similar form, but accentuated by the raised ribs, excavated in Dayangzhou, Jiangxi, now in the Jiangxi Museum, illustrated in Yang Boda, Zhongguo yuqi quanji, Shijiazhuang, 2005, vol. 2, pl. 139. A number of similar jade tubes were found in the tomb of Fu Hao, published in Queen, Mother and General: 40th Anniversary of Excavating the Shang Tomb of Fu Hao: Jade Article, Beijing, 2016, pp. 136-137.

青玉質，喇叭形，一件光素，一件腰部出凸起環帶。 

此類束腰喇叭形玉管多出商代，或為耳墜，如江西博物館藏兩件江西大洋洲出土兩件商代玉管，腰部出弦紋，形狀類似，見楊伯達編，《中國玉器全集》，石家莊，2005年，卷2，編號139。商代殷墟婦好墓出土多件類似玉管，光素、凸起帶飾者皆有，見《王后母親女將：紀念殷墟婦好墓考古發掘四十週年玉器篇》，頁136-137。