An archaic bone carving,

Shang dyꦅnasty, Anyang period, 14th-13th century BC

商代安陽時期 公元前十四至十三世紀 骨雕禮器

the thick shaft of animal bone incised finely with a pair of large confronted kui dragons shown in profile, coming across the narrow edge to form a zoomorphic mask, and with two smaller kui dragons forming another zoomorphic mask on the opposite edge, all reserved on a dense leiwen (thunder) ground, in a broad frieze below triangular blade motifs, ꦿthe surface smoothly polished and exceptionally wellౠ preserved

9.4 cm

The dating of thiജs lot is consistent with the results of&nbsꦕp;the radiocarbon analysis, certificate no. R18219/NZA3052. 

此拍品年代與放射性碳分析結果一致，證書編號R18219/NZA3052。