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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
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A GREYISH-GREEN JADE ‘BOTTLE-HORN’ DRAGON PENDANT
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The fat pendant is in the shape of a crouching bottle-horn dragon, the details executed in slight thread-
relief, and a tiny hole is drilled from one side through the mouth and another through the blade with
beveled edge behind the tail. The semi-translucent stone has some opaque buf alteration at each end.
Together with a dark grey-green jade fsh pendant, late Shang-early Western Zhou dynasty, the body is
straight and has slightly convex sides, and the now-opaque stone has extensive ivory-colored alteration on
one side.
3º and 3√ in. (8.3 and 9.8 cm.) long (2)
$5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.
商晚期 玉龍
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