A rare calcified jade carving of a kneeling figureLate Shang/Western Zhou Dynasty
Carved in the round as a kneeling male figure with a large round and flat face, thick eyebrows and rectangular eyes, wearing a tall hat and a robe hanging in folds from the waist with a long 'bi' or knee cover below the hands folded in front, the robe incised carefully at the edge with brocade pattern, the stone of a pale green tone with white calcification to the surface, box. 7.1cm (2 3/4in) high (2).注脚商晚期/西周 白玉雕跪立人物像

Jade human figures carved with a garment below the figure's hands are placed by scholars within a small group of Western Zhou dynasty carvings. Compare the garments carved on a jade figure excavated in Quwo, Shanxi Province, Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated by Gufang, The Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades, Beijing, 2007, p.153. Compare also the facial characters on a jade figure found in the Fuhao tomb, Henan Province, illustrated ibid., p.151. See also three related jade figures, one in British Museum, which is illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1990, p.282, fig.1; and two carvings exhibited by the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, illustrated in Selected Treasures of Chinese Art-Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1990, nos.199 and 203.

白玉質，大體鈣化，略帶硃砂，圓雕跪立人物，頭戴高冠，冠陰刻幾何紋帶飾一周，人像扁圓臉，粗眉方目，蒜鼻厚唇，雙手垂拱，陰刻短裳與蔽膝（鞸），裙邊刻劃錦紋，人像背面光素，惟後腦細劃頭髮。

此件人物雕件雕琢生動，刻劃細膩，可觀商周人物形貌及衣著制度。先秦正式服裝上衣下裳，此件所刻，恰合古制。山西曲沃西周晉侯墓出土一件玉人所刻服飾及其軀幹和本件玉人極似，見古方著，《中國古玉器圖典》，北京，2007年，頁153。同書著錄一件安陽婦好墓出土之商代晚期玉人，面部特徵和本件亦頗類之，見前書，頁151。另可參考一件大英博物館所藏西周玉人像，見J. Rawson著，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，頁282，圖1；香港敏求精舍曾展出兩件西周玉人亦資參考，容貌衣衫頗有相通處，見《歷代文物珍萃·敏求精舍三十週年紀念展》，香港，1990年，編號199及203。