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TWO ARCHAIC JADE SILKWORM PENDANTS A SMALL CELADON AND RUSSET JADE BIRD PENDANT
Western Zhou dynasty Western Zhou dynasty
The first one of a naturalistic curved silkworm shape with a ribbed The flat stone worked in the form of a bird, finely carved with fluent
body tapering to a pointed tail, the second with similar carving but a lines depicting a small head, open beak, closed wings, curled tail, and
straight body, each has a pierced hole at one end. tucked feet, one pierced hole in the chest, the stone of pale green tone
1 1/8in (3cm), 1 1/2in (3.7cm) long (2). with the edge of russet inclusion.
2 1/2in (6.2cm) long
$2,000 - 3,000
$5,000 - 7,000
西周 玉蠶珮兩件
西周 鳥形玉珮
Provenance:
J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, New York, 2016 Provenance:
Michael Gulbenkian Collection.
Literature: Sotheby’s, London, Important Chinese Art, 6 November 2019, lot 228
J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, Ancient China, Jades, Bronzes and
Ceramics, March-April 2016, New York, 2016, no. 31 來源：
Michael Gulbenkian珍藏
來源： 倫敦蘇富比，2019年11月6日，拍品編號228
藍理捷藝廊，紐約，2016年
For another example of similar form attributed to the Western Zhou
出版： dynasty, see Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient
J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, Ancient China, Jades, Bronzes and Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg
Ceramics, 2016年3-4月, 紐約，2016年，圖錄編號31 Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 198, no. 270.

A comparison with a group of silkworm form pendants of similar
design excavated at the Western Zhou Yu State burial site at
Zhuyuangou, Baoji, Shaanxi province is fruitful, see Liancheng Lu and
Zhisheng Hu, Baoji Yuguo mudi (Yu State Cemetries in Baoji), Vol. 2,
Beijing, 1988.

For three other examples dated to the Western Zhou dynasty, see
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, The Robert Youngman Collection of Chinese
Jade, 3 April 2019, lot 3409, where the rarity of these silkworm
pendants are noted. For a single example, 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, p. 212, no. 310.
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