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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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