AN ARCHAIC PLAIN JADE CONG Late Shang - Early Western Zhou dynasty, 12th-10th century B.C.AN ARCHAIC PLAIN JADE CONGLate Shang - Early Western Zhou dynasty, 12th-10th century B.C.Of classic one-tier form, the center cylinder finished flat at the ends and enclosed by square corners on the sides, the tops of the corners gently sloped, the stone softly polished and striated in translucent celadon and brown. 3in (7.5 cm) wide商晚期-西周早期 素玉琮Compare the plain jade cong of this form excavated from the tomb of Fu Hao, consort of the Shang dynasty King Wu Ding, illustrated in the excavation report Yin xu Fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. 81, no. 3.Another jade cong of this type discovered at the Shang capital at Anyang, Henan province, is illustrated in Anyang Yinxu chutu yuqi (Jades from Yinxu), Beijing, 2005, p. 1.Compare also a small plain jade cong illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 154, no. 7:3.