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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
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A WHITE JADE CICADA CARVING
Han dynasty
Of flattened form, cut with sweeping strokes to form the winged insect,
with simply delineated head and eyes, the underside with further
horizontal strokes to highlight the lower abdomen and with traces of
calcification.
2 1/4in (5.6 cm) long

$1,500 - 1,800
For a similar white jade cicada see, J.J.Lally & Co. Chinese Archaic Jades
and Bronzes from the estate of Professor Max Loehr and others, June
1993, no. 74.
Another from the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto is illustrated by Doris
Dohrenwend, Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth,Toronto, 1971, p.29.

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
416
A CELADON AND GRAY JADE ‘ARCHERS-THUMB-RING’
PENDANT
Western Han Dynasty
Of unusual semi-arched form pierced with a cylindrical opening
suggestive of an ‘archer’s thum ring, and carved in low relief to the
upper section with a striding chilong coiling around the cylindrical
opening, the underside with a cursory scroll design.
2in (5cm) across
$2,000 - 4,000

For a somewhat similar example from the Smithsonian Institution, Freer
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., see Alfred Salmony, Chinese Jade
Through the Wei Dynasty, New York, 1963, p. 128-129, Pl. XVII-1 and
dated to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

For a more crisply-cut and elaborate jade ‘archer’s ring’ ornament dating
to the Western Han Dynasty see, J. J. Lally & Co., Ancient Chinese
Jade, March, 2018, no. 126. Another is illustrated by Thomas Lawton,
Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-
222 B.C., Washington, D.C., 1982, p. 164, no. 111.
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