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4 août 2019

Jade Figure of a Kneeling Man, Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE), 12th-11th century BCE

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Jade Figure of a Kneeling Man, Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE), 12th-11th century BCE. Calcified, bone-colored nephrite. H. 4.3 x W. 2.8 cm (1 11/16 x 1 1/8 in.), Weight 54 g. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.50.317© President and Fellows of Harvard College.

The Shang refined Neolithic jade-making practices, fashioning ritual blades and implements of even greater sophistication than those of their predecessors, incorporating jade blades into turquoise-inlaid bronze hafts, and expanding their jade repertoire into representational shapes of humans and animals.

Full-round, dwarfish figure in a kneeling posture, summarily fashioned of bone-colored, calcified jade. The large face shows a very low forehead; slightly relieved striated eyebrows; eyes which are shaped like human eyes; a broad nose; and a pouting, thin-lipped mouth. As in a preceding figurines, the hands meet in front. The modeling of the legs consists simply of a groove running around from behind one knee to the other. The base is squarish. Probably Shang. (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) 

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