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211 A VERY RARE YELLOWISH-GREEN JADE PENDANT (HUANG)
SHANG - ZHOU DYNASTY
商至周 玉刻雙龍紋璜

the flattened fan-shaped huang pierced at both ends with a small aperture, with a possibly later incised design on both sides,
each elegantly executed in faint lines with a pair of dragons, with their sinuous bodies interlocked and heads turned facing
each other, the softly polished stone of a pale yellowish-celadon tone with some fine russet inclusions on one side

Length 3⅝ in., 9.3 cm
$ 10,000-15,000

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. XXXI, fig. 3. Dynasty》，紐約，1963年，圖版XXXI，圖3

The present lot is most remarkable for its finely incised interlocking double-dragon design on both sides. A small
group of huang of this form with either carved or incised designs are known from archeological discoveries or
in museum collections, mostly attributed to the Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn periods. The most similar
example within this group is a slightly larger huang, incised on both sides in similarly fashioned faint lines with
stylized dragon heads formed by angular scrolls, from the late Spring and Autumn period, unearthed in Fengxian
county, Shaanxi province, published in Liu Yunhui, Shaanxi chutu dongzhou yuqi [Eastern Zhou jade unearthed in
Shaanxi], Beijing, 2006, p. 60, no. FW10, together with three other related examples with heavier incised designs of
scrolls, also discovered in Fengxiang county, ibid., pp 73-74, nos FN18, FN19, and FN20.

The style of the dragon design and the superior fluency of the incisions on the present pendant seem somewhat
atypical among related published examples of this period, which presents the question of whether the design could
have been incised at a later date. Although there appears to be no definitive answer, similar speculations have been
made by academics on two Western Zhou dynasty jade bi discs and a late Neolithic to Shang dynasty jade slit disc
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, each decorated with finely incised designs on both sides, exhibited in Special
Exhibition of Circular Jade, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1995, cat. nos 31, 32, and 42, where it is noted that their
designs are possibly post-Han dynasty additions. Compare also a jade huang of a similar form, but pierced with three
apertures near the edges, carved to one side with a tiger in low relief and finely incised to the other side in similarly
executed fluent lines with scrolling cloud motifs, attributed to the Wei to Jin dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Jadeware, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 224.

本玉璜兩面刻雙龍紋飾，線條纖細，靈動流暢，獨特珍 本品所刻龍紋極為獨特，較同類作例更為精細流暢，故並
罕。相類帶刻飾之璜例，可見出土或博物館藏之例，大部 不排除其紋飾為後加之可能。現時雖無定論，但可比較兩
分斷代為西周至春秋。最相近者可見一例，出土自陝西鳳 西周玉璧例及一新石器時代晚期至商代玉玦例，現藏於台
縣，尺寸較大，斷代春秋晚期，兩面細線陰刻秦式龍首 北國立故宮博物院，表面均有細刻紋飾，展於《故宮環形
紋，載於劉雲輝，《陝西出土東周玉器》，北京，2006 玉器特展圖錄》，國立故宮博物院，台北，1995年，編
年，頁60，編號FW10；同書另載三例，亦屬鳳縣出土， 號31、32及42，據圖錄編者推測，該三例紋飾可能為漢
見頁73至74，編號FN18、FN19及FN20。 之後所加。另可比較一玉璜例。近邊緣處作三孔，器型相
近，一邊刻淺浮雕虎紋，另一邊刻雲紋，纖細流暢，類於
本品，斷代魏晉，藏北京故宮博物院，見《故宮博物院藏
文物珍品全集•玉器（上）》，香港，1995年，圖版224。

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