Page 16 - September 23 to 24 Important Chinese Art Christie's NYC

706

THE PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST FAMILY PROPERTY FROM THE JACQUELINE AND PIERRE SIMON COLLECTION
706 707
A LARGE YELLOWISH-GREEN JADE DRAGON-FORM PENDANT A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, HU
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC LATE WARRING STATES-EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 4TH-2ND
The dragon has a backward-turned head with rolled snout, and the undulating CENTURY BC
body is carved on both sides in low relief with scrolls within plain borders and The pear-shaped body is cast on the shoulder with two taotie mask handles
pierced with a suspension hole. The stone is of pale yellowish-green tone. suspending loose rings, attached to linked chains that slide through
13æ in. (34.9 cm.) wide, cloth box corresponding rings suspended from loops on the semi-domed cover. The
lower body is cast with three additional taotie mask handles with loose rings.
$30,000-60,000 13 in. (33 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
Private Institution, California, by 1999.
PROVENANCE:
This unusually large jade dragon pendant can be compared to other Warring Michael Goedhuis, London, 1993.
States examples with similar backward-turned heads and scrolling bodies
carved with scrolls, such as a pair of smaller size (28 cm.) from Hebei A fuller-bodied bronze chain-handled hu from Hubei Jiangling, of late
province, and three further examples of smaller size (ranging from 6.2 cm. Warring States date, late fourth-third century BC, is illustrated by Jenny So
to 22 cm.) from Huaiyang county, Henan province, illustrated in Zhongguo in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. III,
yuqi quanji, vol. 3, Hebei, 1993, nos. 260 and 274-76, respectively. All of these Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, p. 287, fig. 51.3. Like the present bronze
pendants have a small suspension hole below the upper edge of the curved hu, the Hubei example has a pair of mask and loose-ring handles flanking the
body indicating their orientation when suspended. shoulder and three mask-and-ring handles on the lower body.

美國西岸家族珍藏 JACQUELINE 暨 PIERRE SIMON 伉儷珍藏
戰國 公元前四至三世紀 青黃玉龍形珮 戰國晚期／西漢早期 公元前四至二世紀 銅提梁壺
來源: 來源:
私人機構, 加州, 於1999年已入藏。 Michael Goedhuis, 倫敦, 1993年。

14