A CHINESE ARCHAIC CARVED BONE FITTING

A CHINESE ARCHAIC CARVED BONE FITTING
SHANG DYNASTY

Carved from a short, straight section with a prominent median ridge, decorated to the front with a taotie mask below alternating bands of chevrons and angular scrolls, the reverse with a simple lattice pattern, the inside hollowed out and with a collection paper label 'B225', 9.3cm.

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注：本拍品不設底價。

Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex.

Cf. Cheng Te-K'un, Archaeology in China: Shang China, vol.2, p.284, pl.24.b, for a similar example of a carved bone fitting dating to the Shang dynasty.