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136. An Ancient Jade Openwork Plaque
Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618–907)
of rectangular form, pierced and carved on the front with a pair of phoenix in flight with wings
spread and long tail feathers trailing back amid scrolling clouds, the reverse incised with a simple
outline of the design, the stone of olive tan color and showing some degradation of the glossy
surface.

Length 6 ⁄8 inches (16.2 cm)
3
Ex Collection Dr. Franco Vannotti, Lugano, acquired from L. Wannieck, Paris, 1947

Exhibited and Published: Ostasiatische Kunst und Chinoiserie, Cologne, Staatenhaus, 1953, no. 232
Eskenazi Ltd., Chinese and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr. Franco
Vannotti, Hans Popper and others, London, 1989, pp. 96–97, no. 44
A very similar jade plaque from the same set in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated by Zhang, Shanghai bowuguan cangpin
yanjiu daxi: Zhongguo gudai yuqi (Research series of the Shanghai Museum Collection: Ancient Chinese Jades), Shanghai,
2009, p. 194, no. 154. Another example is illustrated by Siren, Kinas Konst under Tre Artusenden, Vol. II, Stockholm, 1943, fig.
236, and another similar plaque is in the Art Institute of Chicago, from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection,
no. 1950.902.

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