Page 28 - 2019 September 13th Christie's New York Important Chinese Works of Art

815

815 816
A RARE GREENISH-YELLOW JADE A BROWNISH-GREEN JADE FISH-FORM PENDANT
DRAGON-SILKWORM PENDANT WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
LATE SHANG-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-9TH CENTURY BC The pendant of arched shape, is carved with circular eyes and fns on both
The pendant of curved shape has the head of a bottle-horned dragon and the sides, and is pierced with one hole in the mouth and another in the tail. The
body of a silkworm and is pierced with one hole at the mouth and another in jade is of dark olive-green color.
the tail. The semi-translucent jade is of pale green color with a yellowish tinge. 3 in. (7.6 cm.) long
1√ in. (4.6 cm.) long
$8,000-12,000
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE
A. W. Bahr and E. H. Bahr Collection, 1963.
PROVENANCE
A. W. Bahr and E. H. Bahr Collection, 1963. Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Else Sackler.
Else Sackler. Elizabeth A. Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
A very similar fsh pendant carved from similar brownish-green jade is
A very similar late Shang-Western Zhou yellowish-green jade dragon- illustrated by Jenny F. So in Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums,
silkworm pendant was sold at Christie’s New York, 2 December 1993, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019, p. 172, fg. 3. Also illustrated, p. 172, fg.
lot 169, and was subsequently illustrated by Jenny F. So in Chinese Jades 4, is a neck ornament worn by the Ba lord from Yicheng Dahekou, Shanxi,
from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection, The Chinese University of Hong which features very similar fsh pendants and illustrates how an existing arc-
Kong, 2015, p. 69, no. 10c. The author notes, p. 70, that small, fnely worked shaped fsh pendant of this type could be “adapted for suspension by turning
ornaments such as the current example “formed parts of elaborately strung it upside down and drilling a second hole at the tail.”
personal ornaments, worn around the neck, wrist, or ankles.” 西周 青褐玉魚形珮
商晚期/西周 青黃玉龍首蠶身形珮

266
2