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A PALE GREENISH-YELLOW JADE RABBIT-FORM PENDANT
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 1
2TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The thick pendant is carved as a crouched rabbit with a small suspension
hole between the fore legs. The features are fnely delineated by thin grooved
lines on both sides. The semi-translucent greenish-yellow jade has small areas
of buf alteration.
1æ in. (4.5 cm.) long

$25,000-35,000

PROVENANCE
A. W. Bahr and E. H. Bahr Collection, 1963.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
This boldly carved jade rabbit is notable for its thickness which allows it to
function as a free-standing sculpture. Compare the late Shang jade fgure
of a rabbit, of smaller size (3.2 cm.) and with more rudimentary carving, but
with similar angular ears with thin grooved lines corresponding to the shape,
from Qianzhangda, Tengzhou, Shandong province, illustrated by Gu Fang in
The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 8, Beijing, 2005,
vol. 4, p. 147.
商晚期/西周早期 青黃玉兔形珮

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