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2725 Continued 虎作匍匐狀，部分元素如眼睛及耳朵以寫實方式表達，其他部位如虎斑
則以抽象卷雲紋表現，為商代中晚期典型風格。嘴角及尾巴均有繫孔，
The zoomorphic design of this piece is characteristic of jade carvings 可能本用作珮飾。
from the Shang dynasty. It is notable that while certain features on
the tiger are naturalistically rendered, such as the eyes and ears, other 商婦好墓曾出土四件立雕玉虎，其中一件亦作匍匐狀，雖身體較修長
elements are more abstractly represented, such as the use of square (14.1公分)，但風格與本件相似，故本件定年商後期。上述婦好墓例子
scrolls to highlight the stripes on the body. The apertures in the tiger’s 現藏中國社會科學院考古研究所，著錄於 1986年北京出版《中國美術全
mouth and tail suggests it might possibly have been worn as a pendant. 集 -9- 玉器》，圖版72號（圖一）。另一件與婦好墓例子相近的玉虎出
土於洛陽龐家溝，定年西周早期，見1993年石家莊出版《中國玉器全集
Four jade tigers were excavated from the tomb of Lady Fu Hao, the -2- 商．西周》，圖版234號。養德堂珍藏另一件定年商代的玉虎，見
consort of King Wu Ding of Shang, thus giving rise to the dating of this 鄧淑蘋，《羣玉別藏》，台北，1995年，圖版22號。
piece to the late Shang period. One of these four pieces is represented
in recumbent form, in a similar position as the current tiger, also with
an upturned tail (fig. 1). Though longer in length (14.1 cm.), it is closely
related to the current tiger and is now in the collection of Institute
of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, illustrated in
Zhongguo meishu quanji -9- yuqi, Beijing, 1986, pl. 72. Another jade
tiger similar to the Fu Hao example, dating to the early Western Zhou
period (16.5 cm.), was excavated in Pangjiagou in Luoyang, illustrated
in Zhongguo yuqi quanji 2- Shang & Western Zhou, Shijiazhuang,
1993, pl. 234. There is another jade tiger dating to the Shang dynasty
in the Yangdetang Collection, illustrated in Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’
Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1995, pl. 22.

fig. 1
圖一

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