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Property from the Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers Chinese Jades from the Collection of T. Eugene Worrell
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A LARGE MOTTLED BLACK AND GREEN JADE BI, SAM 及 MYRNA MYERS 伉儷珍藏 A PAIR OF LARGE GREYISH- These pendants are unusual not only for their T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中४玉器
DISC 中४東٫部 新⊅器時代 Ռ元ע˕千至̣千紀 玉璧 GREEN JADE `DRAGON' large size, but also in that they are cut from 戰४晚期ǎՌ元ע˕ˠ紀ǎ青玉龍紋珮ˏ對
NORTHWEST CHINA, NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM BC Ϝ源 PENDANTS the same boulder. By the 4th century BC, Ϝ源
Sam 及 Myrna Myers伉儷珍藏，Ն藏於紐☼，1986年6月5日 LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 3RD dragon pendants of this S-shape type were David David Weill 1871 1952
珍藏, 巴黎
11¡ in. (29 cm) diam.
展覽 CENTURY BC popular and are widely represented in jades Mathias Komor 1909 1984
, 紐☼, 1955年9月
$12,000-18,000 蒙ṁ利ḓ，؟拿૯，Pointe à Callière考۵歷史博ḵ館，ǙTwo Americans in found in tombs from the Zhongshan state at Myron S. 1906 1992
及Pauline Baerwald Falk
Paris: A Quest for Asian Artǚ，2016年11月17日 2017年3月19日 8¿ in. (20.7 cm.) long, metal stand Pingshan Xian in Hebei province. A dragon 1910 2000
伉儷珍藏, 紐☼
PROVENANCE: $20,000-30,000 pendant of this type from the tombs of the ǗFalk伉儷珍藏 ˏ
ǘ, 紐☼ωૈ得, 2001年10月16日,
Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, acquired in New York, 5 June 1986. 沃斯ਫ，得Գ薩斯州，Kimbell美術館，ǙFrom the Lands of Asia: The Sam and
Myrna Myers Collectionǚ，2018年3月18日 8月19日 kings of the state of Zhongshan, dated to the 拍品編號205
PROVENANCE:
EXHIBITED: ֨ḛ David David-Weill (1871-1952) Collection, Paris. 4th century BC is illustrated in Zhongguo 展覽
Montreal, Canada, Pointe-à-Callière Montréal Museum of Archaeology and Paul Desroches, ǗTwo Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Artǘ，巴黎，2016 Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York, yuqi quanji, vol. 3, Hebei, 1993, p. 134, no. 費৬, 賓夕法尼̯૯學藝術館, ǙChinese Jadeǚ,
History, Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art, 17 November 2016-19 年，頁45，編號53 September 1955. 215. Another somewhat later example found 1962年11月30日 1963年2月3日
March 2017. Myron S. (1906-1992) and Pauline Baerwald Falk in 1957 in Henan province, and dated to the 波ૈ頓, 波ૈ頓美術館, ǙUnearthing China's Pastǚ,
Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, From the Lands of Asia: The Sam and (1910-2000) Collection, New York. mid-Warring States period, is also illustrated, 1973年
Myrna Myers Collection, 18 March-19 August 2018. p. 161, no. 252. Like the Falk pendants it ૠ洛茨維ḓ, Worrell家族藝廊, 2001 2022年
The Falk Collection I; Christie's New York, 16
LITERATURE: October 2001, lot 205. is carved from dark green jade and is of ֨ḛ
Paul Desroches, Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art, Paris, 2016, S-shape in profile. Another similar, but 賓夕法尼̯૯學藝術館, ǗChinese Jadeǘ, 費৬,
EXHIBITED: smaller, pair in the collection of the British 1963年, 編號108
p.45, no.53.
Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Museum was included in the exhibition, J. Fontein及吳同, ǗUnearthing China's Pastǘ, 波ૈ
Pennsylvania, Chinese Jade, 1963. Chinese Jade throughout the ages, London, 頓, 1973年, 頁86, 編號34
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Unearthing China's Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975, no. 118,
Past, 1973. dated 4th-3rd century BC; and two, also
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, of smaller size, but of the same profile, in
2001-2022. the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein
Collection, are illustrated by A. Salmony,
LITERATURE:
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Archaic Chinese Jades, the Art Institute of
Chinese Jade, Philadelphia, 1963, no. 144. Chicago, 1952, pl. LXXIII (3 and 4).
J. Fontein and Tung Wu, Unearthing China's Past,
Boston, 1973, p. 86, no. 34.

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