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A RARE WHITE JADE ‘PHOENIX’
CYLINDER
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (C. 1100-771 BC)
The upper and lower sections are demarcated by two horizontal
ridged borders. Incised around the upper section is a band in a
stylised lotus lappet pattern and surrounding the lower part are two
stylised scrolling phoenix motifs. The semi-translucent stone is of a
white tone with dark russet veins and inclusions.
2¬ in. (6.7 cm.) long, box
HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000

PROVENANCE
The Yangdetang Collection, Taipei, acquired prior to 1999
EXHIBITED
National Palace Museum, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese
Jades, Taipei, 1999, Catalogue, pl. 111
LITERATURE
Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades,
Taipei, 1999, pl. 111, p.188
Two excavated jade ornaments dated Western Zhou period
with very similar decoration of bird, but of different shapes are
in the collection of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology.
See The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China-
Shanxi, vol. 3, Beijing, 2005, pp. 100 and 138.

西周 白玉鳳紋管
來源
養德堂珍藏，台北，入藏於 1999 年以前
展覽
國立故宮博物院，《羣玉別藏續集》，台北，1999 年， (detail 細部)
圖版 111 號
著錄
鄧淑蘋，《羣玉別藏續集》，台北，1999 年，圖版 111 號，
頁 188

是件拍品上的鳥紋也常見於西周某些玉器上，有兩件相似例各
由山西省曲沃縣晉侯墓地 31 號及山西省降縣橫水西周墓地 1 號
墓出土，見《中國出土玉器全集 ‧ 山西卷》，第 3 冊，2005 年，
頁 100 及 138。

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