LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

A jade ornament of this form, but of smaller size (4.7 cm. high) and more slender proportions, from the tomb of Fu Hao at Xiaotun, Anyang, Henan, is illustrated in King Wu Ding and Lady Fu Hao, Art and Culture of the Late Shang Dynasty, Taipei, 2012, p. 67, fig. II-1, where it is dated Yinxu phase II.