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PROPERTY FROM THE HEI-CHI COLLECTION 西周 陰刻龍紋玉鐲
A JADE INCISED ‘DRAGON’ BRACELET
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY 出版：
姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉續》，北京，2012年，頁48
worked with two diagonal grooves, dividing the gently waisted
surface into four registers, each incised with a dragon’s head
rendered with double-lines and scrollwork
d. 8.2 cm, 3¼ in.

LITERATURE
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from Hei-Chi Collection II,
Beijing, 2012, p. 48.

HK$ 300,000-400,000
US$ 38,700-52,000

The present jade is skilfully engraved with two parallel spiralling 玉鐲所刻龍紋，陰刻雙層平行龍紋，連續不斷，風格
bands of stylised dragons. While this type of motifs was not 屬西周晚期。陰刻飾紋的玉佩飾，西周年間雖談不上
uncommon in the Western Zhou dynasty, it is extremely 絕無僅有，但飾於玉鐲上者，甚罕。此器呈圓筒形，
rare to find an incised bracelet such as the present piece. In
fact, the form of the present piece is reminiscent of Neolithic 略束腰，形狀與新石器時代玉鐲有相類之處。參考寺
jade bracelets, especially those from the Liangzhu culture. 墩及張陵山出土的三件良渚文化玉鐲，均呈束腰之
Compare three smaller Liangzhu bracelets excavated from 狀，現存南京博物院，圖見《中國玉器全集》，卷1：
Sidun and Zhanglingshan and now in the Nanjing Museum, all 原始社會，石家莊，1991年，圖版258-260。華盛頓弗
slightly waisted, published in Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete 利爾美術館也藏兩例，分別陰刻圖象及幾何圖案，編
collection of Chinese jades], vol. 1: Yuanshi shehui [Primitive
society], Hebei, 1991, pls 258-260; and two other bracelets 號F1917.385及F1919.46。
in the collection of Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC, also
slightly waisted, incised with pictographs and a geometric 對比小巧的陰刻龍紋玉管狀器，如山西洪洞永凝堡出
pattern respectively, nos F1917.385 and F1919.46. 土玉握（徑2.3-2.7公分），收錄於《中國出土玉器全
For the more common but smaller tubes engraved with 集》，卷3：山西，北京，2005年，圖版76；何鴻卿
dragons, see one excavated from Yongningpu, Hongtong, 爵士舊藏小玉管（徑3.2公分），收入羅森，《Chinese
Shanxi (d. 2.3-2.7 cm), published in The Complete Collection Jade: From the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，
of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 3: Shanxi, Beijing, 2005, pl. 編號14:3；或芝加哥藝術學院 Sonnenschein 伉儷舊藏玉
76; a bead from the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung (d. 3.2
cm), illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade: From the 管，編號1950.548（徑2公分），其線描圖則可參閱前
Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, no. 14:3, p. 50, figs 37c, 述羅森著作，頁240，圖1。
d (panoramic view); and another from the Edward and Louise
B. Sonnenschein collection and now in the Art Institute of
Chicago, no. 1950.548 (d. 2 cm), the line drawing of which is
published ibid., p. 240, fig. 1.

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