漢 玉琮

拍品描述

英文品名：A HAN JADE CONG WITH STRING BANDS 尺寸：H:11cm 玉質，白地夾褐黃沁斑。體呈圓筒形，上下對穿，外壁分節飾多道平行弦紋，每節三道，弦紋之間以豎向凹槽分隔。玉質溫潤，沁色自然，黃褐與白色交錯，光素無紋，僅以弦紋為飾，形制簡穆。琮為「六器」之一，《周禮·春官》「以蒼璧禮天，以黃琮禮地」，是新石器時代以來祭地的禮玉。內圓外方，象徵天圓地方；中孔對穿，象天地間的通達。漢世去古已遠，古琮多出於出土或傳世，漢人得古器而寶之，或陳於書齋几案，或作喪玉以斂屍。此器光素無紋，僅以弦紋分節，形制簡古，正與漢人重視古禮、以古器為寶的風尚相應。 A jade cong, of white tone suffused with brownish russet. It is cylindrical in section, pierced top to bottom, its exterior divided into sections by multiple bands of parallel string pattern, three lines per section, separated vertically by grooves. Plain apart from the string bands, the jade is smooth with natural russet inclusions. The form is archaic and restrained. The cong is one of the six ritual jades listed in the Rites of Zhou: a dark disc honours Heaven, a yellow cong honours Earth. Dating back to Neolithic Liangzhu culture, it was an earth-offering jade: its round interior and square exterior encode the cosmology of round heaven and square earth, while the central perforation allowed communication between the realms. By the Han, ancient cong were already treasured antiquities; they were displayed in studios or buried as grave goods. This plain example, divided only by string bands, follows the ancient ritual form, reflecting the Han regard for ancient rites and antiquities.

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