Lot 1032
1032
A JADE OX-HEAD FORM CARVING
A JADE OX-HEAD FORM CARVING

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1300-1000 BC

Details
A JADE OX-HEAD FORM CARVING
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1300-1000 BC
1 3⁄4 in. (4.6 cm.) long
Provenance
Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 16 January 1997
Literature
Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 153, no. 76
Exhibited
The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999

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Lot Essay

Similar jade carvings of buffalo and ram heads had been discovered at the Fuhao tomb, but the relief-decoration on the present carving is more prominent. Compare to a larger carving of a buffalo head (10 cm. long) in the Harvard Art Museums (fig. 1), similarly carved with raised lines to depict the elongated eyes and a lozenge on the foreheard.

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