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A GREYISH-GREEN JADE TORTOISE CARAPACE

细节
A GREYISH-GREEN JADE TORTOISE CARAPACE
LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

The upper shell carved with a lozenge pattern within a plain recessed border and the lower shell realistically executed, the horizontal aperture flanked by deep notches at either end, the pale grey-green stone with slightly yellowish cast and areas of opaque buff and dark grey mottling, softly polished, traces of cinnabar remaining --¼in. (3.2cm.) long, brocade box
来源
Dr. Robert Bloch
出版
Robert Bloch, Jade, Munich, 1979, p. 96, pl. 43 and 44 and lower col. pl. opposite

拍品专文

Compare the two similar but attached carapaces of this type illustrated in The Jades from Yinxu, pl. 67