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A WHITE JADE TWO-PART BELT BUCKLE A RARE ARCHAISTIC WHITE AND Scott L. Burdett曾任英國駐中國領事館的外交
19th century RUSSET JADE SHE-SHAPED PENDANT 官，二十世紀二十年代於哈爾濱任職，二十
The convex arching halves carved in Probably Song/Yuan Dynasty 世紀三十年代晉升為領事，並於二十世紀五
medium relief with lingzhi sprays and Crisply carved as an oval disc, with a writhing 十年代晉升為駐滬總領事；他還是1928年
auspicious bats, joined by a hook rendered chilong with bifurcated tail in medium relief 《中華民國刑法》的英文譯者。
as an archaistic mythical beast-head, the highlighted with russet, the reverse with
stone of even white hue. archaistic scrolls, and confronted stylised The present lot is a stylised form of an ancient
11.6cm (4 1/2in) long (2). dragons, the jade of pale white tone with russet archer’s ring known as a she (韘). See for
highlights, fitted box. example, a related jade archer’s ring with
£2,500 - 3,500 5.2cm (2in) long. (2). similar chilong design, Eastern Han dynasty,
CNY22,000 - 31,000 from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in
£3,000 - 5,000 The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum: Jadeware I, Hong Kong,
十九世紀 白玉帶扣 CNY26,000 - 44,000 1995, p.229, no.190.
或宋/元 白玉帶皮螭紋韘形佩 Archaic design continued to exert a strong
influence on jade carvers into the Song and
Provenance: Scott L. Burdett CBE., MC., and Yuan dynasties and well into the Qing dynasty.
thence by descent. Compare with a white jade pendant with
double chilong, Song dynasty, illustrated in
Scott L. Burdett was a diplomat in the British the Compendium of Collections of the Palace
Consular Service in China. He served in Museum: Jade, 5, Beijing, 2011, p.195, no.224;
Harbin in the 1920’s, was promoted to British and also a white jade oval-shaped ring with
Consul in the 1930’s, and Consul General in chilong, Yuan dynasty, ibid., p.276. For a later
Shanghai in the 1950’s. He also translated the Qing dynasty example see a white jade she-
Chinese Criminal Code into English. shaped pendant, with two hydras, from the Qing
Court Collection, illustrated in the Compendium
來源：大英帝國司令勳章暨十字勳章獲勳人 of Collections of the Palace Museum: Jade, 9,
Scott L. Burdett舊藏，並由後人保存迄今 Beijing, 2011, p.230, no.236.

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