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A VERY RARE JADE RETICULATED
‘PHOENIX’ ARCHER’S RING
EARLY TO MID-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY,
RD
ND
C. 3 -2 CENTURY BC
The thumb ring-form pendant is surmounted by a reticulated
phoenix grasping a small snake in its beak, the pendant incised with
scrolling motifs.
2√ in. (7.4 cm.) long, box
HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-150,000
P R O V E N AN C E
Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1996
E X H IB IT E D
Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, The National Palace
Museum, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 223
L IT E R A T UR E detail
Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 細部
1999, no. 223
This pendant is delicately carved with a phoenix grasping a worm
or a snake. Such motif can also be found on a jade carving found
in a Han dynasty tomb in Mancheng, Hebei province, illustrated in
Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 4, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 95.
西漢早中期 玉鳳紋韘形珮
來源
金華堂舊藏,1996年購於台北
展覽
國立故宮博物院,《群玉別藏續集》,台北,1999年,圖錄圖版
223號
出版
鄧淑蘋,《群玉別藏續集》,台北,1999年,圖版223號
青黃玉,局部褐色,邊緣多處白沁。本體一面略帶斜凹面,並以細陰
線雕各式圓弧紋,另一面平而光素。上方一側鏤雕一口啣小蛇的鳳
鳥,凸胸彎喙,冠羽雕扭絲紋。鳳鳥啣蛇的造形,初見於戰國玉器
上,哈佛大學藏有兩件,見Max Loehr著,《Ancient Chinese Jades》,
哈佛大學,1975年,圖版414、427;紋飾母題沿用至西漢中期,如滿
城漢墓出土一件鳳啣蛇玉飾,著錄於《中國玉器全集 -4- 秦漢—南 line drawing of the present lot
北朝》,石家莊,1993年,圖95。(節錄自鄧淑蘋《群玉別藏續集》) 本拍品之線描圖
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