Period:Shang dynasty Production date:1500BC-1050BC
Materials:jade
Technique:incised, polished,
Dimensions:Height: 11.50 centimetres
Description:
Jade stand or ornament. Made of grey-green buff jade.
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![图片[1]-ornament BM-1937-0416.180-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Shang dynasty/Jades/mid_00843060_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1995:Comparable jades have come from Shang dynasty tombs, but they were probably inherited from Neolithic times. It has been compared with both Neolithic jade bracelets and the tall stands employed for Neolithic pottery. Closely related to this stand are rings decorated with concentric grooves, a type that was used much more extensively in southern China than in the Shang and Zhou centres of Henan and Shaanxi. The very fact that this stand and quite a number of other jades had no successors in Henan suggests that they were recognised in their day as being foreign and exotic; something to marvel at but inappropiate to copy or develop. The care with which it was made and the high level of finish achieved are startling. A spectacular late Neolithic jade that resembles closely this piece was acquired by the Shang queen Fu Hao, consort of the king Wu Ding, whose intact tomb, of circa 1200 BC, was discovered at Anyang in 1976. It contained over two hundred ritual bronzes and over seven hundred jades.
Materials:jade
Technique:incised, polished,
Dimensions:Height: 11.50 centimetres
Description:
Jade stand or ornament. Made of grey-green buff jade.
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1995:Comparable jades have come from Shang dynasty tombs, but they were probably inherited from Neolithic times. It has been compared with both Neolithic jade bracelets and the tall stands employed for Neolithic pottery. Closely related to this stand are rings decorated with concentric grooves, a type that was used much more extensively in southern China than in the Shang and Zhou centres of Henan and Shaanxi. The very fact that this stand and quite a number of other jades had no successors in Henan suggests that they were recognised in their day as being foreign and exotic; something to marvel at but inappropiate to copy or develop. The care with which it was made and the high level of finish achieved are startling. A spectacular late Neolithic jade that resembles closely this piece was acquired by the Shang queen Fu Hao, consort of the king Wu Ding, whose intact tomb, of circa 1200 BC, was discovered at Anyang in 1976. It contained over two hundred ritual bronzes and over seven hundred jades.
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