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PROPERTY FROM THE PEONY COLLECTION
A JADE ‘BIRD’ HALBERD FINIAL
WARRING STATES PERIOD
the U-shaped plaque rendered in the form of an abstract
bird with a raised ridge along its body, the centre base
detailed with an animal mask and pierced with an aperture
5.3 cm, 2⅛ in.
EXHIBITED
Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 111.

HK$ 20,000-30,000
US$ 2,550-3,850
戰國 玉鳥飾

展覽：
Angus Forsyth 及 Brian McElney，《Jades from China》
，東亞藝術博物館，巴斯，1994年，編號111

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A SMALL GREEN JADE ‘TIGER’ PLAQUE
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
the bottle-horned tiger depicted with powerful shoulders and
loins, the thin plate of translucent olive-green nephrite
9.3 cm, 3⅝ in.
EXHIBITED
Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 93.
LITERATURE
Roger Keverne (ed.), Jade, London, 1991, p. 99, fig. 16.
HK$ 30,000-40,000
US$ 3,850-5,100

西周初 青玉虎形珮
展覽：
Angus Forsyth 及 Brian McElney，《Jades from China》
，東亞藝術博物館，巴斯，1994年，編號93
出版：
Roger Keverne 編，《Jade》，倫敦，1991年，頁99，
圖16
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