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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
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A JADE THREE-SECTION DISC, HUANG
Zhou dynasty
Carved in three sections, each lightly engraved with raised patterns of
four stylistic dragons, with notches and holes cut for attachment, the
semi-translucent stone of yellow and green tone with some alterations
near the edges.
6 1/4in (16cm) diameter

$20,000 - 30,000
周 玉璜

For a number of arc-shaped pendants, huang, dating to the Western
Zhou period which bear comparison, see Jessica Rawson, Chinese
Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995,
pp. 237-243, no’s. 14:4 and 14:6, each with a characteristic dragon
scrolling design.

For other examples of Western and Eastern Zhou disc-segments of
this type, see Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient
Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, pp.218-219 and p.
235, no’s. 325-327 and 349 respectively.

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