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A WHITE JADE SHIELD-FORM PENDANT
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
superbly worked after the ancient archer’s ring, the pendant rendered with a shield surrounded by openwork stylised intertwining
scrolls, including one with tapering end flaring outwards, the shield centred with an aperture, one side with a convex surface and
decorated with a scrolling wave design, the flat reverse incised with scrolls containing hooks and barbs, the translucent stone of an
even white colour accentuated with pale brown inclusions to one edge

西漢 白玉卷草紋雞心珮
7.1 by 4 by 0.5 cm, 2 ¾ by 1 ⅝ by ¼ in.
HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 76,500-102,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo. 出光美術館，東京
Christie’s New York, 26th March 2003, lot 31. 紐約佳士得2003年3月26日，編號31
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Ltd, New York, 2003. 春源齋，紐約，2003年
LITERATURE 出版
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection 羅伯特．楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器．新石器時代至
of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版72
2008, pl. 72.

The form of this pendant, which evolved from an ancient archer’s ring, consists of a shield shape enclosed within a dense
arrangement of open-worked scrolls, one of which tapers to a long curved tip. For another similar but smaller example, dated
to the Eastern Zhou period, see C. T. Loo, An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades held at the Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm
Beach, Florida, 1950, cat. no. 4.

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