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20 商晚期 玉虎
A JADE TIGER AND A JADE BIRD 及西周 小玉鳥
The tiger Shang Dynasty, the bird Western Zhou Dynasty
The crouching tiger carved from a thick section of jade with distinctly 來源:
incised details of eyes, ears, limbs and tail in low-relief, 3.9cm (1 1/2in) 玉虎:金匱室陳仁濤先生舊藏
long; the small bird carved in three sections with the top indicating 麥費森伉儷收藏,1950年代晚期購於東京繭山龍泉堂
the head, the middle part as the body and the tapering section with 紐約佳士得,2008年3月19日,拍品編號474(拍品之一)
a flared end as the tail, 2.5cm (1in) long; both of pale green tone with 玉鳥:香港張陶然先生舊藏,1982年
areas of opaque buff alterations, the bird with traces of cinnabar. (2). 松竹堂珍藏,編號23,28
HK$60,000 - 80,000 展覽:
US$7,700 - 10,000 舊金山金門公園溫室花園,《Treasures of the Orient》,亞洲藝術協
會,1979年,編號13(玉虎)
Provenance:
Jade tiger: J.D. Chen King Kwei 出版及著錄:
Mr and Mrs Malcolm E. McPherson, acquired from Mayuyama &Co., S.Umehara,《Yin Hsu》, 東京朝日新聞,1964年,圖版CXLI(玉虎)
Tokyo, in the late 1950s 霍滿棠,《韞玉生輝 - 松竹堂珍藏玉器》,香港,2011年,圖版23
Christie’s New York, 19 March 2008, lot 474 (part lot) (玉虎)及圖版28(玉鳥)
Jade bird: Cheung Tao Yin, Hong Kong, 1982
The Songzhutang collection, nos.23 and 28 此件玉虎青黃色,局部有白化現象。扁平體,虎作趴伏狀,略昂首,
肢前屈,尾略上卷,足雕三爪,口部穿孔可佩繫,雙鈎線裝飾風格,
Exhibited: 雕刻細緻,形態生動,具商代晚期玉器的典型特徵。玉鳥青色呈鈣化
San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Hall of Flowers, Treasures of the 現象,留硃砂痕跡,雕成三部分,上部為鳥首,中部為身體,下端為
Orient, Society for Asian Art, 1979, no.13 (tiger) 尾,風格簡約,造型小巧。
Published and Illustrated: 參考Avery Brundage舊藏一件商代晚期玉虎,其形制結構與本器類
S.Umehara, Yin Hsu, Asahi Shinbunsha, Tokyo, 1964, pl.CXLI (tiger) 似但尺寸較大,見R.L.d’Argencé, 《Chinese Jades in the Avery
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, Brundage Collection》,三藩市亞洲藝術博物館,1977年,頁26,圖
Hong Kong, 2011, pls.23 and 28 版VI。倫敦大英博物館何鴻卿爵士收藏一件商晚期或西周早期之玉虎
可資比較,該虎尾巴稍長但形制相類,見J. Rawson,《Chinese Jade
Compare an example of a jade tiger, late Shang dynasty, in the Avery from the Neolithic to the Qing》,倫敦,1995年,頁214,編號12:8。
Brundage collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated 另外,形制相類的西周小玉鳥,可參考一例著錄於《北京文物精粹大
by R.L.d’Argencé, Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, 系:玉器卷》,北京,2002年,頁61,圖版38。
San Francisco, 1977, p.26, pl.VI. Another example of a crouching
tiger pendant with a slightly longer tail, late Shang or early Western
Zhou dynasty, is in the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung in the British
Museum, illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to
the Qing, London, 1995, p.214, no.12:8. See also a related example
of a jade bird, Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated in Gems of Beijing
Cultural Relics Series: Jades, Beijing, 2002, p.61, pl.38.
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