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8 商或更早 鸚鵡形青白玉笄
A JADE PARROT-SHAPED PENDANT, JI
Shang Dynasty or earlier 來源：
The spindle-shaped pendant finely carved in the style of an elongated 香港張陶然先生舊藏，1984年
parrot, the angular tip modelled as the parrot head, the diagonally 松竹堂收藏，編號16
ribbed body as the feathers and the conical end as the tail, the semi-
translucent stone of greenish white tone suffused with russet and dark 出版及著錄：
brown veins. 霍滿棠，《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》，香港，2011年，圖版16
9.5cm (3 3/4in) high

HK$30,000 - 40,000 此玉笄青白玉沁褐色，呈長條圓錐狀，整體雕鸚鵡形，鸚鵡頭部呈三
US$3,900 - 5,100 角形，兩側雕雙翼，尾部尖。整體造型精緻，打磨溫潤，玉質狀態保
存良好，實屬難得。
Provenance:
Cheung Tao Yin, Hong Kong, 1984 玉笄為古代女性用以裝飾髮耳的一種簪子，用來插住挽起的頭髮、或
The Songzhutang collection, no.16 插住帽子。值得留意的是此玉笄上所飾的浮雕弦紋最早已出現在新石
器時代晚期。台北國立故宮博物院藏一件石家河文化晚期的玉鷹紋笄
Published and Illustrated: 與此笄相似，見《敬天格物：中國歷代玉器》，台北，2012年，頁57
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, ，圖版4-5-11。
Hong Kong, 2011, pl.16
商代出土例子可參考河南省淮陽市馮塘鄉馮塘村出土一件鸚鵡形玉
Ji, in the form of a long stick, were used as a hairpin to secure a bun 珮，現藏於河南博物院，飾類似淺浮雕雙翼及弦紋，見《中國出土玉
or hat. This kind of parrot-shaped ji with the decoration of low-relief 器全集5》，北京，2010年，頁112；再參考一件尺寸較大的商代早期
carved lines appeared as early as the late Neolithic period. See a 鷹形玉墜，出土於湖北省武漢市黃陂區盤龍城李家嘴，見《中國出土
similar example of a jade hairpin, late Shijiahe Culture, in the National 玉器全集10》，北京，2010年，頁58。
Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth:
Chinese Jades through the Ages, Taipei, 2012, p.57, pl.4-5-11.

For Shang dynasty examples, compare a pale green jade ji also in the
shape of a parrot, excavated from Fengtangcun in Huaiyang, Henan
Province, now in the Henan Provincial Museum, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol.5, Beijing, 2010,
p.112; and another example excavated from Lijiazui in Huangpi, Hubei
Province, illustrated in ibid., vol.10, Beijing, 2010, p.58.