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2727 商晚期 青玉花冠鴞
A VERY RARE CELADON JADE
CRESTED OWL 來源
1999年以前購自台北雲中居
LATE SHANG DYNASTY,
CIRCA 14TH-11TH CENTURY BC 鴞圓雕，兩腿與尾成鼎立狀，圓眼，勾喙，身體陰刻雙線卷雲紋，頭戴
二層花冠，頂托花蕾。商代出現不少玉鴞圓雕，但最近似例子暫只知兩
The jade is finely carved in the round depicting an owl standing on 件，而引人入勝的是所有玉鴞的花冠層數都不一樣。第一件例子藏北京
its feet and tail, and its head adorning a two-tiered crown. 故宮博物院，造型及紋飾都與本件相近，惟鴞帶三層冠，體積亦較高
2 ¬ in. (6.8 cm.) long, box （13.1公分）（圖一），見1995年香港出版故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集
《玉器（上）》，圖版63號。另一件藏震旦文教基金會，見鄧淑蘋著，
HK$240,000-400,000 US$32,000-51,000 《羣玉別藏續集》，台北，1999年，圖版90號。安陽婦好墓亦曾出土一
件玉鴞圓雕，雖造型不同，但飾相近的卷雲紋，可資參考，見1986年北
PROVENANCE 京出版《中國美術全集 -9- 玉器》，圖版70號。

Acquired from Chang Wei-Hwa & Company, Taipei, prior to
1999

The present jade owl wears a distinctly shaped two-tiered crown,
suggesting it may represent a mythical bird with divine powers. Two
very similar examples are known, though interestingly all of them have
different tiered crowns. The first example is in the Palace Museum, in
which the owl is also depicted standing in profile and decorated with
scrolls, but wears a three-tiered crown and resultantly is higher in
height (13.1 cm.) (fig. 1). It is illustrated in Jadeware (I), The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 63.
The second one is in the Aurora Foundation Collection, which is again
very similar to the present owl except its crown is only one-tiered, and is
shorter in height (4.7 cm.). It is illustrated in Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’
Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, pl. 90. A jade owl of
different form but with similar scrolls was excavated from the tomb of
Fu Hao, consort of King Wu Ding of Shang and illustrated in Zhongguo
meishu quanji -9- yuqi, Beijing, 1986, pl. 70.

fig. 1 Collection of Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品

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