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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE COLLECTION 新石器時代紅山文化 青玉瓦溝紋器 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE COLLECTION 新石器時代石家河文化晚期 鷹形玉笄
A CELADON JADE OBLONG PENDANT, 來源： A JADE 'EAGLE' HAIR ORNAMENT, JI, 來源：
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, HONGSHAN CULTURE 奉文堂陳淑貞，香港，1993年 NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LATE SHIJIAHE CULTURE 嘉藝工藝品有限公司，香港，1993年
9.2 cm 8.2 cm
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Susan Chen & Company, Hong Kong, 1993. Galaxie Art & Gift Co., Hong Kong, 1993.
HK$ 50,000-70,000 HK$ 160,000-200,000
US$ 6,400-9,000 US$ 20,400-25,500

Flourished in the Northeast regions of present-day Inner discovered in the tomb of Fu Hao, illustrated in King Wu Ding A very similar late Shijiahe culture jade ‘eagle’ hair ornament
Mongolia, Liaoning and Hebei, Hongshan Culture (c. 4500- and Lady Hao: Art and Culture of the Late Shang Dynasty, is illustrated in Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth. Chinese
3000 BC) produced jades, which are distinctive in style, Taipei, 2012, cat. no. III-3. Jades Through the Ages, Taipei, 2012, pl. 4-5-11, where
characterised by smoothly polished and softly rounded Compare also ornaments similarly decorated with parallel the author attributes this type of jade hairpin to the Yi
surfaces that appeal to the haptic sense. They include both grooves, such as an excavated armlet, illustrated in community from Northeast China around the Shandong
figurative and abstract items, such as the present piece Niuheliang: excavation Report on a Hongshang Culture Site peninsula who moved “to the middle reaches of the Yangzi
which is minimally adorned with subtle grooves. (1983-2003), Beijing, 2012, no. N3M9:2, vol. 3, col. pl. 190, River, taking eagle worship to their new home. They loved to
A similar oblong pendant was unearthed at Aohanqi, Inner together with a cloud-shaped ornament, vol. 3, col. pl. 321.4. fix their hair using a jade pin with an eagle pattern in order
Mongolia, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji / The A related grooved armlet from the Winthrop Collection in to be blessed by the eagle god” (p. 57). See also an example
Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 2: Inner the Harvard Art Museums is illustrated in Jenny F. So, Early in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no.
Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Beijing, 2005, pl. 32; Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2009.87; and another Shijiahe culture jade ‘eagle’ hairpin
and a further late Hongshan culture oblong pendant was Mass., 2019, pl. 1. discovered in the tomb of Fu Hao and illustrated in King
Wu Ding and Lady Hao: Art and Culture of the Late Shang
Dynasty, Taipei, 2012, cat. no. III-3.

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