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9 商或更早 鸚鵡形白玉笄
A RARE WHITE JADE PARROT-SHAPED PENDANT, JI
Shang Dynasty or earlier 來源：
The awl-shaped pendant carved in the form of a stylised parrot, the 香港張陶然先生舊藏，1984年
slightly angular end carved as parrot head, the ribbed body as the 松竹堂收藏，編號15
feathers and the conical tip as the tail, the softly polished stone of an
attractive even white tone. 出版及著錄：
5.7cm (2in) long 霍滿棠，《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》，香港，2011年，圖版15

HK$40,000 - 60,000 此玉笄青白瑩潤，呈圓錐狀，整體雕鸚鵡形，頭部琢三角形為臉的輪
US$5,100 - 7,700 廓，兩側淺浮雕雙翼，身體下部飾一弦紋，尾部尖，鸚鵡嘴有小穿孔
可穿繩佩戴。整體製作線條柔和，玉質潔白無瑕，保存良好，為難得
Provenance: 一見的精品。
Cheung Tao Yin, Hong Kong, 1984
The Songzhutang collection, no.15 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
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
Published and Illustrated: 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
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, 可資參考，其造型與此笄相類，見《敬天格物：中國歷代玉器》，台
Hong Kong, 2011, pl.15 北，2012年，頁35，圖版3-3-30。

The present lot is exceptional for the quality of the stone and its superb 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
carving of the ribbed decoration. 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
器全集5》，北京，2010年，頁112；再參考一件尺寸較大的商代早期
This type of ji was mostly used as a hairpin. The decoration of the raised 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
lines on the ji appeared as early as the late Neolithic period. See an 玉器全集10》，北京，2010年，頁58。
example of a jade hairpin of similar form, late Shijiahe Culture, in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Art in Quest of Heaven and
Truth: Chinese Jades through the Ages, Taipei, 2012, p.35, pl.3-3-30.

For Shang dynasty examples, see 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.

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