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New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 572

A RARE PAIR OF AGATE PE NDANTS, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
Estimate: 5,000 - 7,000 USD

A RARE PAIR OF AGATE PENDANTS
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
東周 瑪瑙觽一對

each of octagonal section, finely carved with the arched body tapered and terminating in a pointed tip, one edge with a protruding
horn, the body with a pierced aperture, the stone of a variegated pale lavender color with splashes of creamy white tones (2)

Length of the larger 6⅛ in., 15.5 cm

Provenance
Collection of Mrs. and Mr. Kalam Cheung.
Ku Ngar Antique Ltd., Hong Kong, 4th November 1994.
Priestley & Ferraro, London.

來源
張嘉琳伉儷收藏
古雅閣，香港，1994年11月4日
覺是軒，倫敦

Catalogue Note
Agate pendants of this type were originally part of an elaborate ornamental set; see, for example, a set from the Warring States
period, comprising crystal rings and beads and suspending a pair of very similar agate pendants and a further pair of agate huang

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