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A SMALL GREY AND BUFF JADE FIGURAL PENDANT A SMALL BROWN AND BEIGE JADE SHELL-FORM PENDANT
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8) SONG DYNASTY OR LATER
The pendant is carved as a standing fgure wearing a long, wide-sleeved robe The pendant is carved as a shell, and pierced with a suspension hole near the
and a hat, and is pierced on each side through the waist. The now opaque jade opening. The jade is of brown and beige color.
is of grey and buf color. 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long
1¡ in. (3.6 cm.) high
$2,000-3,000
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
PROVENANCE
J. T. Tai & Co., New York, 1964. Else Sackler.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Elizabeth A. Sackler.
Else Sackler. 宋或以後 淺褐玉海螺形珮
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
Compare the similarly rendered jade fgure of a man dated to the Han
dynasty, 2nd-1st century BC and of comparable small size (3.9 cm.),
illustrated by Jessica Rawson in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the
Qing, London, 1995, p. 285, fg. 19:7.
西漢 灰玉人形珮

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