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2707 Continued

          This large plaque is carved with an archer’s ring-form
          pendant in the centre, flanked by abstract phoenixes
          on the top and bottom, resulting in a horizontal shape
          resembling a huang. Two jade plaques of similar huang-
          shape but of less complex design, dating to the late
          Western Han dynasty, were found in a tomb in Ganquan,
          Yangzhou city, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 4,
          Shijiazhuang, 1993, pls. 180 and 200.
          本體修長,上尖下圓;中孔比例較小,且孔之下方器表不
          作斜凹面,呈現西漢晚期的特徵,如河南永城僖山、江蘇
          甘泉等地出土此類特徵的韘形珮,見《中國玉器全集 -4-
          秦漢—南北朝》,石家莊,1993年,圖180、200。本器上方
          一側仍保留玉韘的彎勾造形,但已與鏤雕的鳳紋相融合,
          更於同側的下方,鏤雕相互對應的鳳紋。珮之另一側邊,
          鏤雕的鳳紋在中段形成一如意頭式的彎勾,若將絲繩由
          此彎勾穿繫懸掛,全珮則橫置為十分平衡的「璜」形珮,
          構思十分巧妙。中央圓孔鏤雕一鳳,彎喙大張,啣著羽
          翼,尚有傳承自戰國以來的鳳紋風韻;但在其周圍圍繞的
          鳳紋,每一面共有四個鳳首,則作閉口捲繞狀。珮之兩面
          的雕琢,花紋結構相同,但一面採淺浮雕,另一面則為單
          陰線雕。(節錄自鄧淑蘋《群玉別藏續集》)





























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