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2718                                              2719
         A YELLOWISH-CELADON JADE                          A JADE ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’
         RETICULATED ‘DOUBLE-DRAGON’  PENDANT
         PENDANT                                           MID-LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD,
         MID-WARRING STATES PERIOD,                        CIRCA 400-221 BC
         CIRCA 400-300 BC                                  The s-shaped pendant is carved as a slender undulating dragon,
                                                           the head on one end with a long snout and split mouth, the tail
         The pendant is finely carved in openwork as a pair of addorsed
         s-shaped dragons joined at their backs below a ruyi motif. Each   transforming into a phoenix facing a small bird perched on the
         dragon is carved with a single bi-furcated horn and a curved snout.   back of the dragon.
         4Æ in. (12.2 cm.) long, box                       5√ in. (14.9 cm.) long, box
         HK$300,000-500,000           US$39,000-65,000     HK$280,000-400,000           US$37,000-52,000
                                                           PROVENANCE
         PROVENANCE
         Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1990  Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1996
                                                           EXHIBITED
         LITERATURE
         Orientations, May 1995                            National Palace Museum, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese
                                                           Jades, Taipei, 1999, Catalogue, no. 176
         Compare a smaller curved pendant carved as a double-headed dragon   LITERATURE
         with an arched body, excavated from tomb no.1 at the Changtai Guan
         tomb site, Xinyang County, Henan Province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi   Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades,
         quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, no. 251 (fig. 1).   Taipei, 1999, no. 177


         戰國中期   玉透雕雙龍珮                                     戰國中晚期   龍鳳鳥紋玉珮

         來源                                                來源
         藍田山房舊藏,1990 年購於台北                                 金華堂舊藏,1996 年購於台北

         出版                                                展覽
         《Orientations》,1995 年 5 月                         國立故宮博物院,《群玉別藏續集》,台北,1999 年,圖錄
                                                           圖版 176 號
         比較河南省信陽縣長臺關一號墓出土一件較小的扇面形透雕玉雙龍紋
         珮,其為雙龍連體造型,見《中國玉器全集 -3- 春秋戰國》,河北,                 出版
         1993 年,圖版 251 號(圖一)。
                                                           鄧淑蘋,《群玉別藏續集》,台北,1999 年,圖版 176 號























                               fig. 1                                      line drawing of lot 2719
                               圖一                                           拍品 2719 號之線描圖
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