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A GREYISH-GREEN JADE FISH-FORM PENDANT
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC
LITERATURE
The pendant is carved on both sides with circular eyes and fns. The elongated J. P. Dubosc, Mostra d’arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, p. 63, no. 182.
body tapers towards the bifurcated tail and the mouth is pierced for
suspension. The semi-translucent stone is of greyish-green color. Compare the similarly elongated Shang-early Western Zhou jade fsh
pendants, but of slightly larger size (13.5 and 13.2 cm.) from the Falk
4æ in. (12 cm.) long
Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 16 October 2001, lot 201. See, also,
the pair of jade fsh with similarly carved details, but smaller in size (9.8 and
$7,000-9,000
9.7 cm.), illustrated by Jenny F. So in Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art
Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019, pp. 258-59, no. 37A, where they
PROVENANCE are dated Western Zhou period, 1000-800 BC or earlier.
Desmond Gure Collection, 1968. 西周 青灰玉魚形珮
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.

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A PALE GREYISH-GREEN JADE RABBIT-FORM PENDANT
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH
CENTURY BC
The pendant is carved in the shape of a recumbent rabbit with a circular hole
pierced through the fore paws for suspension. The semi-translucent jade is of
pale greyish-green color.
1¬ in. (4 cm.) long

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Desmond Gure Collection, 1968.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
商晚期/西周早期 青玉兔形珮

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