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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SAM AND MYRNA MYERS
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A VERY RARE AND FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE TABLET This superb and rare implement belongs to a group of Western Zhou flat
PENDANT jade carvings of generally rectangular shape and carved with identical
MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC decoration on either broad side which are variously described as tablets,
The irregularly shaped rectangular pendant is finely carved on either side in scepters or handles. The present example is rare to feature a humanoid
figure so prominently in the design. A similarly carved Western Zhou jade
low relief with a design of a kneeling humanoid figure with long, incised hair tablet carved with a bird resting atop the head of a humanoid figure with
arched back behind the head, surmounting two animal masks. The softly similar facial features to that on the current tablet, that in turn surmounts
polished stone is of a creamy white tone with light streaks of brown and is animal masks that face up and down, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
pierced with a single hole for suspension. acc. no. 1985.214.96. (Fig. 1) Other flat jade implements of this type carved
5¿ in. (13 cm.) high with similar bird and mask motifs, but lacking humanoid figures, include
one in the British Museum described as a scepter (acc. no. 1937,0416.151)
$40,000-60,000 and one from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard Art Musuems
(1943.50.134).
PROVENANCE:
Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Paris, by 1995.
EXHIBITED:
From the Lands of Asia, Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History
Complex, Montreal, 16 November 2016-19 March 2017; Kimbell Art Museum,
Fort Worth, Texas, 4 March-19 August 2018.
LITERATURE:
J. Desroches, Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art, Italy, 2016, p. 56,
no. 112.

西周中期 公元前十至九世紀 白玉人龍紋珮
來源:
1995年入藏於香港
展覽:
「From the Lands of Asia」, 蒙特婁考古歷史博物館, 蒙特婁, 2016年11月16
日-2017年3月19日; 金貝爾美術館, 沃斯堡, 德州, 2018年3月4日-8月19日
出版:
J. Desroches, 《Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art》, 義大利,
2016年, 頁 56, 編號112

Fig. 1 Handle-shaped
blade, Western
Zhou dynasty,
10th–9th century BC.
Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Gift of Ernest
Erickson Foundation,
1985, 1985.214.96.
圖一 鳳鳥紋玉柄飾,
西周, 公元前10-9世紀,
大都會藝術博物館藏,
Ernest Erickson基金會
捐贈, 1985年, 館藏編號
1985.214.96

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