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This type of pendant is known to have been used as a bow finial, mi, 商晚期 龍紋玉弭
typically carved in the form of a dagger in three sections: the top part
as the finial decorated with the head of a beast, the bowstring loop 來源:
to be tied at the waisted area, and the lower part as the tip which is 1988年購於香港
usually incised with cicada motifs. 松竹堂收藏,編號21
Compare a similar example of a mi pendant, late Shang dynasty, 出版及著錄:
similarly carved with a stylised dragon-head at one end supported on 霍滿棠,《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》,香港,2011年,圖版21
a band of plantain lappets, illustrated by Cai Qingliang, Jades of Shang
Dynasty, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2010, p.140, pl.93. See also a 青白色玉質。玉弭為弓的末梢,多雕作匕形,分為三部分,上部分為
pale green jade ‘dragon’ pendant of similar form and design but of a 「本部」,琢一龍首,龍角與龍鼻前方中段凸起,龍耳處有一圓孔可
slightly larger size, Shang dynasty, in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated 供穿繩固定於弓之末端,中段微凹處稱為「扣」,用以扣弓弦,下部
by Zhang Wei, Shanghai bowuguan cangpin yanjiudaxi: Zhongguo 分為「末部」,刻三角形禪紋。
gudai yuqi, Shanghai, 2009, p.111, pl.72.
相似之例可參考一件商代龍首玉弭,一端雕龍首,另一端飾禪紋,形
制與此件玉弭相似,著錄於蔡慶良,《商代玉器》,台北震旦藝術博
物館,2010年,頁140,圖版93。另外上海博物館藏亦藏一件尺寸較
大的商代龍首玉弭可資參考,見張尉,《上海博物館藏品研究大系:
中國古代玉器》,上海,2009年,頁111,圖版72。