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A PALE ‘YELLOW’ JADE SWORD-SHAPED PENDANT A TURQUOISE MATRIX DRAGON-CRESTED OWL PENDANT
Shang Dynasty or later Shang Dynasty or later
The blade with multiple softly-polished horizontal ribbed channels, Of flattened oval cross-section, carved as a standing owl with neatly
resembling a silkworm, below a horizontal wider chape-like band delineated scrolls on both sides forming the wings and feathers, the
and terminating in a stylized head (handle) with simplified eyes, the head with hooked beak and surmounted by a dragon crest, the stone
pendant of slender flattened oval cross-section, pierced at one end of mixed tones of turquoise and black.
for suspension. 2 1/8in (5.5 cm) high
3 3/8in (8.5cm) long
$3,000 - 5,000
$1,000 - 1,500
商或更晚 綠松石龍紋鴞形珮
商或更晚 黃玉雕劍形珮
For a Shang dynasty jade pendant of an owl-like predatory bird with
it is quite conceivable that this carving is indeed meant to evoke a a tall crested head ornament, see Liu Yang and Edmund Capon,
stylized representation of a silkworm. Their images in jade certainly Transclucent World, Chinese jade from the Forbidden City, Art Gallery
existed by the late Shang dynasty as attested to by an example of New South Wales, 2007, p. 58, no. 11.
excavated at Ta Ssu K’ung village in Anyang, see Ma Te-Chih et al., in
Kaogu, 1955, No. 9, pl. 17:7. See also two small examples illustrated
by Max Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop
Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1975, p. 133,
no. 167.

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