Lot 26. A jade anthropomorphic figure, Shang–early Western Zhou dynasty; 4.2 cm. Estimate: 240,000 - 260,000 HKD. Lot sold: 327,600 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

depicted seated upright with his arms resting on his bent knees, surmounted by a pair of furcated curved horns, the reverse skilfully incised with scrollwork, the stone of yellowish-green colour with calcified patches.

Property from the Hei-Chi Collection.

Note: For a related jade kneeling figure, see an example of comparable size, with similar facial features but lacking the horns, in the Harvard Art Museums (no. 1943.50.317 [https://hvrd.art/o/204794]), published 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, cat. no. 121.