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7 新石器時代 良渚文化及紅山文化 玉龍兩件
TWO JADE DRAGONS
Neolithic Period, Liangzhu and Hongshan Cultures 來源：
Each thickly carved in the shape of a circular ring resembling a stylised 玉龍（大）：張嘉琳先生舊藏
coiled dragon with the horns, eyes and snout subtly depicted in relief, 玉龍（小）：1978年得自香港古董商黎來先生（1926-2012年）
the larger stone smoothly polished, and of pale green tone suffused 松竹堂收藏，編號7，86
with buff inclusions, the other of dark olive-green tone mottled with
black inclusions. 出版及著錄：
4.2cm (1 3/4in) and 3.7cm (1 3/8in) wide (2). 霍滿棠，《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》，香港，2011年，圖版7
（大玉龍）
HK$70,000 - 100,000
US$9,000 - 13,000 一件玉龍玉質青色局部泛黃，另一件青玉受沁呈褐色。環形，龍體捲
曲，中間鑽小孔，在邊緣一側浮雕凸起龍首。此二件玉龍整體造型頗
Provenance: 為生動，雕刻線條流暢，形制規整，應在紅山文化及良渚文化時期備
The larger dragon: Kalam Cheung, Hong Kong 受重視。
The smaller dragon: Acquired from Lai Loy (1926-2012), Hong Kong,
in 1978 玉器在紅山文化中佔有極其重要的地位，主要用於佩戴或裝飾。動物
The Songzhutang collection, nos.7 and 86 形玉器在紅山文化中非常多見，且工藝水平極高，尤見玉龍造型出土
數量甚多。雖然沒有明確資料顯示紅山文化對後來新石器時代的其他
Published and Illustrated: 文化期有著直接的影響，但從良渚文化玉器的風格上，可看出其吸收
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, 了紅山文化玉器元素的跡象。
Hong Kong, 2011, pl.7 (the larger dragon)

The coiled dragon was highly significant to the Hongshan people as 台北國立故宮博物院藏兩件新石器時代崧澤文化至良渚文化的龍首玉
demonstrated in the large numbers found in tombs. Although the 飾，其形制與本器類似，尺寸較小，見《敬天格物：中國歷代玉器》
Hongshan Culture did not influence the later Neolithic societies directly, ，台北，2012年，頁55，圖版4-5-6及4-5-7。江蘇省常熟市練塘鎮羅
many aspects were transferred to the Liangzhu Culture. 墩遺址8號墓曾出土一件良渚文化龍形玉環亦可資參考，見《中國出
土玉器全集7》，北京，2010年，頁20。

Compare two smaller jade dragons in the shape of a ring, the dragon
heads similarly carved in relief, late Songze to early Liangzhu Culture,
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Art in Quest of
Heaven and Truth: Chinese Jades through the Age, Taipei, 2012, p.55,
pls.4-5-6 and 4-5-7. For another related example of a ring-shaped
jade dragon from the Neolithic period, Liangzhu Culture, see one
excavated from tomb no.8 at the Luodun site in Changshu, Jiangsu
Province, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in
China 7: Jiangsu, Shanghai, Beijing, 2010, p.20.

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