Page 197 - March 22 2022 Bonhams

239 240

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
239 240
A JADE ‘ROPE-TWIST’ CONJOINED RINGS A JADE SCABBARD SLIDE
Warring States Western Han Dynasty
Each finely carved in mostly continuous spiral fluting arranged The rectangular panel curled slightly downwards, finely carved with
diagonally around the ring, the translucent celadon stone polished angular scrolls and a taotie mask on one end, the underside with a
with mottled areas from burial. plain rectangular loop placed off-center, the stone mottled in russet-
Each 1 3/8in (3.8cm) diam; 5/16in (0.9cm) thick brown and yellow tones.
2 11/16in (6.8cm) wide
$8,000 - 12,000
$3,000 - 5,000
戰國 玉絞絲紋雙連環
西漢 玉璏
Jade rings of this type are thought to belong to a large ensemble of
necklace or dress pendant. The design loosely suggest a twisted Provenance
cord or silk strand, and the technology of making the dense, fluted A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals, Toronto, November 25th Fall
spirals is worth noting. A fluted jade ring of this type in flattened Catalogue Auction, Lot 1111
form, from the Winthrop Collection and now in the collection of the From the Irving Langleb Collection, collected in Japan in the 1950’s
Harvard Art Museums, is illustrated by So, Early Chinese Jades in
the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2019, pp. 244-245, no. 33, 出處：
with discussions on the technology on pp. 36-37. So cited a related 多倫多 A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals 拍賣會，2014 年11月25
double ring with knotted accents from Shouxian, Anhui province, 日，拍品第1111號
ancient capital of the Chu State, is illustrated in Anhui sheng chutu Irving Langleb 舊藏，1950 年代購自日本
yuqi jingcui, Taipei, 2004.
Compare the similar jade scabbard slide illustrated by Rawson,
See a related example of a white jade rope-twisted ring, late Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 300,
Warring States period to Qin dynasty, excavated from tomb no.12 at pl. 21:11.
Xiaotianxi in Fuling, Chongqing, illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Jades Unearthed in China, vol.13, Beijing, 2010, p.238.

See also a rope-twist ring carved from a translucent stone of white
tone with light russet mottling, 4cm (1 1/2in) diam. offered in a group
lot at Bonhams, Hong Kong, The Songzhutang Collection of Early
Jades, 30 May 2017, lot 30.

CHINESE WORKS OF ART | 195