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A RARE PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE FISH
PENDANT
Spring and Autumn/Warring States Period
With elongated body and bifurcated tail, carved on
both sides with fins and detailed scales, 5.4cm (2
1/8in) long; together with an early oatmeal-coloured
jade pendant, Warring States period, of indented
rectangular form decorated with ‘C’-scroll designs,
10.5cm (4 1/8in) long. (2).
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價 8

春秋/戰國 玉雕魚形飾 及戰國 長方玉飾 一組兩件

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2009,
no.81 (rectangular pendant).

出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，
倫敦，2000年，編號81（長方玉飾）

Compare the fish carving with a related example in
the Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Jade Artifacts in
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1982, no.56. A
similar rectangular jade pendant, excavated from a
Chu burial at Xiasi, Xichuan, Henan Province, Spring
and Autumn period, is illustrated by Yin Zhiqiang
and Ding Bangjun, Jades of the Eastern Chou and
Wu C’hu Dynasties, Taipei, 1993, pp.104-105,
no.106.

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A RARE CALCIFIED JADE CARVING OF A PIG 9
Han Dynasty
Boldly detailed with almond-shaped eyes and gently
raised spine, an aperture drilled through the back,
the stone of pale buff colour accented with darker 9
streaks and finished with a lustrous polish, box.
11.3cm (4 3/8in) long. (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

漢 玉握豬

Compare a similar jade carving of a pig, Han
dynasty, in the British Museum, illustrated by
J.Rawson and J.Ayers, Chinese Jade throughout
the ages, London, 1975, no.154; and Zhongguo
Yuqi Quanji, vol.4, Beijing, 1994, no.118.

See a jade carving of a pig, Han dynasty, which was
sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 May 2019, lot 106.
See also a pair of pale-brownish-green jade carvings
of pigs, Han dynasty, which were sold at Bonhams
Hong Kong, ‘The Sze Yuan Tang Collection of
Chinese Jades’, 5 April 2016, lot 31.

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