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39 It is extremely rare to find a superbly carved jade tube ornament of
A RARE PALE GREEN JADE ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ TUBE the same form and decoration as of the present lot. Elements of the
ORNAMENT design are comparable to two extant examples of a pipe-shaped
Warring States Period jade ornaments, also incised with scrolling clouds and carved in high
Of slightly tapering cylindrical form, masterfully carved in high relief relief with dragon and phoenix motifs, excavated from the tomb of
with a reticulated sinuous dragon clambering on one side showing a Yanggong of the Warring States period in Changfeng County, Anhui
fierce expression, the other side similarly decorated with a phoenix, Province, one currently in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and the other
all on a ground intricately carved with scrolling clouds in low relief, the in the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,
attractively polished stone of greenish-white tone subtly flecked with illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade
grey inclusions. 3 Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, Beijing, 2011,
6.8cm (2 5/8in) high p.78, pl.75, and The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in
China, vol.6, Beijing, 2010, p.93.
HK$600,000 - 800,000
US$77,000 - 100,000 A set of jade ornaments comprising a jade bi, a jade ‘dragon’
pendant and nine jade tubular ornaments, Warring States period,
Provenance: was excavated from tomb no.58 in the capital city of the State of Lu
Acquired in Hong Kong in 1998 in Qufu, Shandong Province; in which eight of the tubular ornaments
The Songzhutang collection, no.39 (carved with grain-pattern) were placed neatly in two columns above
another jade tube carved in openwork with dragons, in which the
Published and Illustrated: form and design are comparable to the present lot, see Gufang, The
T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades, Beijing, 2007, p.199.
Hong Kong, 2011, pl.39

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