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A CELADON JADE ‘BIRD-MAN’ FINIAL
LIAO DYNASTY
worked in the form of an anthropomorphic figure standing on a lotus blossom supported by oval leaves with the right hand held
in abhaya mudra and the left in vitarka mudra, the figure with a birdlike body and flanked on the sides with finely incised wings
and depicted with a tail curving downward, further portrayed adorned in a cap, crown and fluttering scarves, the stone of a pale
celadon-beige colour with russet patches, pierced through with an aperture
遼 青白玉鳥人仗首
4.2 cm, 1⅝ in.
HK$ 70,000-90,000
US$ 9,000-11,500

PROVENANCE 來源
Anunt Hengtrakul, New York. Anunt Hengtrakul，紐約
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176
2008, pl. 176.

A closely related image of a celestial being, identified as a Zoroastrian priest, discovered on a 6th century sarcophagus
excavated from the tomb of Yu Hong in Shanxi province, is illustrated in James Watt, China. Dawn of a Golden Age 200-750
A.D., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, cat. no. 175. See also a bird-man finial carved in jade and dated to the
Song dynasty in the collection of the Tianjin Museum, illustrated in Tianjin shi bowuguan cang yu, Beijing, 1993, pl. 165.

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