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                                                                          A JADE ‘BIRD’ PENDANT
                                                                          Hongshan Culture, Neolithic Period
                                                                          Of flattened form, the pendant carved in the form of
                                                                          a bird with a triangular head with protruding eyes, its
                                                                          outspread wings carved with vertical parallel lines, the
                                                                          top of the reverse pierced with two circular apertures.
                                                                          5.8cm (2 1/4in) long.
                                                                          HKD60,000 - 80,000
                                                                          US$7,700 - 10,000
                                                                          新石器時期 紅山文化 玉鷹

                                                                          Compare with a similar Hongshan Culture jade
                                                                          ‘bird’ pendant in the Aohan Banner Museum,
                                                                          Inner Mongolia, illustrated by G.Fang, The Pictorial
                                                                          Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades, Beijing, 2004,
                                                                          p.54.

                                                                          參看内蒙古自治區敖漢旗博物館藏一件玉鷹,亦為雙
                                                                          翅展開與肩平齊設計,見古方《中國古玉器圖典》,
                                                                          北京,2004年,頁54。











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                                                                          AN OPAQUE GREEN STONE ‘PIG DRAGON’
                                                                          PENDANT
                                                                          Possibly early Hongshan Culture, Neolithic Period
                                                                          Carved in the form of a coiled dragon with its tail
                                                                          curving towards the head, the head carved with
                                                                          three parallel lines to represent the eyes and a
                                                                          horizontal line to represent the mouth, the top is
                                                                          vertically pierced with an aperture, the stone of dark
                                                                          spinach-green tone with white speckles, box.
                                                                          7.6cm (3in) long (2).

                                                                          HKD60,000 - 80,000
                                                                          US$7,700 - 10,000

                                                                          或新石器時代 紅山文化早期 玉豬龍

                                                                          Compare with a similar jade dragon, Neolithic
                                                                          period, excavated at Zuojiacun, Nong’an County,
                                                                          Jilin Province, , circa 7000 BC, in the National
                                                                          Museum of China (acc.no.t20181218_24434).

                                                                          參看吉林省農安縣左家村遺址曾出土一件玉豬龍,
                                                                          其帶有典型紅山文化玉豬龍特點,但造型及雕刻上
                                                                          更為原始(博物館編號t20181218_24434)。考
                                                                          古學家從底層上推測,其年代可能早於遼寧紅山
                                                                          文化。






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