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4 août 2019

Two-Sided Jade Statuette of a Woman, Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE), 12th-11th century BCE

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Two-Sided Jade Statuette of a Woman, Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE), 12th-11th century BCE. Whitish nephrite. H. 6 x W. 2 x D. 1.5 cm (2 3/8 x 13/16 x 9/16 in.), Weight 19 g. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.50.330© 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.

Whitish nephrite carving of a standing nude whose small breasts, indicated by engraved circles, suggest a female. Her head, about one third of the height of the entire figure, is large, but shows finely rendered features in raised outlines and a headdress of two horn- or wing-like projections with a groove in the middle. Her arms are in the same position as in the preceding figure, No. 118, with the hands meeting at the abdomen. Her legs are separated by a triangular perforation, and her feet are turned inward, joining at the toes. The legs are marked with a slender triangle ending in a volute. The two sides of the statuette are carved identically. A perforation passes through the figure and the short, recessed extension below its feet. Late 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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