An extremely rare pale green and brown jade carving of a human, Western Zhou dynasty

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Chinese Jades from the Ralph Wanger Collection Height 2½ in., 6.4 cm His hands joined before him, his gaze soft yet firm, his stance powerful yet reassuring, the present figure represents a rare and important example of early jade figural work. Aside from this initial group, surviving examples of such extraordinary quality and human subject matter are very rare. Compare another related figure acquired by Sir Joseph Hotung from Roger Keverne, London, now preserved alongside the two aforementioned in the British Museum, London (accession no. 2022,20334.135), illustrated in Rawson, op. cit., cat. no. 19:1; a bald-headed figure in the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington in Hai-wai Yi-chen. Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Jade II, Taipei, 1991, pl. 27; and two figures uncovered from Tomb 63 in the Necropolis of the Marquis of State of Jin, Quwo, Shanxi Province in Gu Fang, The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 3: Shanxi, Beijing, 2005, pp 117-8.

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