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235 A RARE STONE FISH-FORM PENDANT
LATE SHANG DYNASTY OR LATER
商末或以後 石雕魚形珮

the elongated form tapering toward the upper and lower edges, the fish incised with circular eyes, abstract curved gills, and
short lines defining the scales and fins, its flat mouth pierced with a small aperture
Length 4½ in., 11.7 cm

$ 4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (1871-1941), no. Christian R. Holmes 夫人 (1871-1941) 收藏，編號9896
9896. 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

Fish-form pendants of this type made of stone are extremely rare, and no other examples appear to be published.
The depiction of fish scales on the present lot is also a rare feature. Only a small group of pendants with the same
feature appear to be recorded, including two jade examples excavated from the Fu Hao’s tomb in Henan province,
published in Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang, Beijing, 1980, pl. CXLVI, fig. 2; one
dated Western Zhou dynasty, excavated in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, published in Yang Boda, ed., Zhongguo yuqi quanji
[Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol. 1, Shijiazhuang, 2005, no. 260; and another, modeled in a arched form,
from the S.H. Minkenhof Collection, published in H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium,
New York, 1952, pl. 56. For related examples without the carved scales, see two jade pendants attributed to the Shang
dynasty, in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, published in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989,
pl. 138; a Zhou dynasty example, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Gure, exhibited in Mostra d’arte cinese
[Exhibition of Chinese art], Venice, 1954, cat. no. 181; and a pair, from the collection of Frau E. Rosenheim, included in
the exhibition Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst [Exhibition of Chinese Art], Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 194.

此類魚形珮極少以石製，本品疑為孤例。本品飾魚鱗紋， Holland and Belgium》，紐約，1952年，圖版56。再
亦甚罕見。同類珮可參考數例，其中兩玉珮例出土自河 比兩玉珮例，斷代商，無刻魚鱗紋，現藏於東京出光美
南婦好墓，載於中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷墟 術館，載於《中国の工芸：出光美術館蔵品図録》，東
婦好墓》，北京，1980年，圖版CXLVI，圖2；另見一 京，1989年，圖版138；尚有一周朝作例，出自Desmond
例，斷代西周，陝西西安出土，載於楊伯達編，《中國 Gure伉儷收藏，曾展於《Mostra d’arte cinese》，威尼
美術全集：玉器》，卷1，石家莊，2005年，編號260 斯，1954年，編號181；此外亦可參考一對例，出自Frau
；亦見一例，出自S.H. Minkenhof收藏，作拱形，載於 E. Rosenheim收藏，曾展於《Ausstellung Chinesischer
H.F.E. Visser，《Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Kunst》，柏林，1929年，編號194。

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