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CHINESE JADES FROM THE COLLECTION OF T. EUGENE WORRELL
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A PAIR OF LARGE GREYISH-GREEN JADE `DRAGON' PENDANTS T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中國玉器
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY BC 戰國晚期 公元前三世紀 青玉龍紋珮一對
Cut from the same boulder, each flat plaque is in the shape of a dragon
with backward-turned head, arched S-form body, and bifurcated tail, and 來源:
delineated on both sides with incised lines following the outline of the body David David-Weill (1871-1952) 珍藏, 巴黎
and carved in shallow relief in the center of the body with comma spirals, all Mathias Komor (1909-1984), 紐約, 1955年9月
below a single hole for suspension. The semi-translucent stone is of mottled,
greyish olive-green color. Myron S. (1906-1992)及Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000)伉儷珍藏, 紐約
8º and 8 in. (20.9 and 20.3 cm.) long, metal stand (2) Falk伉儷珍藏(一), 紐約佳士得, 2001年10月16日, 拍品編號205
展覽:
$40,000-60,000 費城, 賓夕法尼亞大學藝術館, 「Chinese Jade」, 1962年11月30日-1963年2月
3日
PROVENANCE:
David David-Weill (1871-1952) Collection, Paris. 波士頓, 波士頓美術館, 「Unearthing China's Past」, 1973年
Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York, September 1955. 夏洛茨維爾, Worrell家族藝廊, 2001-2022年
Myron S. (1906-1992) and Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000) Collection, New
York. 出版:
The Falk Collection I; Christie's New York, 16 October 2001, lot 205. 賓夕法尼亞大學藝術館, 《Chinese Jade》, 費城, 1963年, 編號108
J. Fontein及吳同, 《Unearthing China's Past》, 波士頓, 1973年, 頁86, 編號34
EXHIBITED:
Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Chinese Jade,
1963.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Unearthing China's Past, 1973.
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 2001-2022.
LITERATURE:
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Chinese Jade, Philadelphia,
1963, no. 144.
J. Fontein and Tung Wu, Unearthing China's Past, Boston, 1973, p. 86, no. 34.

These pendants are unusual not only for their large size, but also in that they
are cut from the same boulder. By the 4th century BC, dragon pendants of
this S-shape type were popular and are widely represented in jades found
in tombs from the Zhongshan state at Pingshan Xian in Hebei province.
A dragon pendant of this type from the tombs of the kings of the state of
Zhongshan, dated to the 4th century BC is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi
quanji, vol. 3, Hebei, 1993, p. 134, no. 215. Another somewhat later example
found in 1957 in Henan province, and dated to the mid-Warring States
period, is also illustrated, p. 161, no. 252. Like the Falk pendants it is carved
from dark green jade and is of S-shape in profile. Another similar, but smaller,
pair in the collection of the British Museum was included in the exhibition,
Chinese Jade throughout the ages, London, Victoria and Albert Museum,
1975, no. 118, dated 4th-3rd century BC; and two, also of smaller size, but of
the same profile, in the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, are
illustrated by A. Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades, the Art Institute of Chicago,
1952, pl. LXXIII (3 and 4). For a related dragon pendant of large size (10 3/8
in. long), but of a more compressed profile, see the example included in the
exhibition, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Change and Continuity,
480-222 BC, Washington, DC, Freer Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 154, no. 101.

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