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202 A SUPERB AND RARE ARCHAIC CELADON AND RUSSET JADE SLIT DISC (JUE)
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
東周 玉雕鳥獸紋玦

of circular form, meticulously incised to one side with highly stylized mythical birds and intertwined serpentine creatures
dissolving into intricate scrolls, all divided by a narrow rectangular band enclosing two S-shaped double spirals opposite
the slit, the reverse plain, the narrow side finely incised with diagonal lines, the softly polished stone a pale green color with
touches of russet coloration and minor calcification along the edges
Diameter 2 in., 5.3 cm

$ 40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
LITERATURE 出版
Alfred Salmony, Chinese Jade Through the Wei Dynasty, Alfred Salmony，《Chinese Jade Through the Wei
New York, 1963, pl. XX, figs 1a-b. Dynasty》，紐約，1963年，圖版XX，圖1a-b

The present lot is outstanding for its strikingly intricate design and exceedingly high quality of worksmanship, which
make it a particularly rare example of this form. Compare a jade huang, incised with a very similar although less
intricate design, from the early Spring and Autumn period, excavated from the Huang Junmeng tomb in Baoxiang
Temple, Guangshan county, Henan province, in 1983, published in Yang Boda, ed., Zhongguo meishu quanji yuqi
[Complete series on Chinese art. Jades], vol. 9, Beijing, 1997, pl. 95.

Related jade slit discs are more commonly decorated in simpler designs. See for example, one from the mid Spring
and Autumn period, carved to one side with C-scrolls, and the other side undecorated, unearthed from a tomb in
Zhechuan county, Henan province in 1978, illustrated in Yang Boda, Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection
of Chinese jades], vol. 1, Shijiazhuang, 2005, no. 24; a pair decorated with S-scrolls and commas, formerly in the
collection of A.W. Bahr and Arthur M. Sackler, now in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, acc. no.
S1987.497-498; and another pair carved with an abstract dragon design, in the Kwan Collection, exhibited in Chinese
Archaic Jades from the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no.
145.

本品紋飾精巧，雕工卓越，尤其難得。比較一玉璜例，刻 載於楊伯達，《中國玉器全集（上）》，石家莊，2005
相類紋飾，唯未及本品細緻繁縟，斷代春秋早期，1983年 年，編號24；一對飾勾連紋，曾屬巴爾及亞瑟•M•
河南光山縣寶相寺黄君孟墓出土，載於楊伯達編，《中國 賽克勒收藏，現存於弗瑞爾及賽克勒美術館，館藏編號
美術全集：玉器》，卷9，北京，1997年，圖版95。 S1987.497-498；關氏收藏一對，刻抽象龍紋，曾展
於《關氏所藏中國古玉》，香港中文大學文物館，香
其他作例紋飾多數較為簡單，其一斷代春秋中期，一面 港，1994年，編號145。
刻變形蟠虺紋，一面無紋飾，1978年河南浙川出土，圖

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