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A PALE CELADON AND BLACK JADE PHOENIX PENDANT A YELLOW JADE MYTHICAL HARE PENDANT
Eastern Zhou Dynasty/Warring States or later Early Shang Dynasty style
Of annulate profile, the phoenix with slender coiled body carved on With large upright ears, almond-shaped eyes and snout, the top of the
both sides with neatly engraved and channeled with lines forming tufts head engraved with a criss-cross pattern, the front legs bent at the
and feathery decoration above muscular lags with claws. chest, the lower body terminating in a scroll, pierced at the neck from
1 1/8in (3cm) across both sides for suspension.
3 1/2in (8.8cm) high
$1,000 - 1,500
$1,000 - 1,500
東周/戰國或更晚 鳳鳥形玉佩
商代早期風格 黃玉兔形珮
For a Warring States jade pendant with a hydra design but similar
rounded-relief carving and with darker inclusions at the edges, see
Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware I, Hong Kong, 1995,
p.192, no. 160. See a small jade carving of a crested feline beast
with similar treatment of curling scrolls to appendages and the body
illustrated by Max Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard, 1975, p. 302, no. 440. For a Qianlong archaism of the same
subject in the Qing Court Collection, see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang
Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum) Jadeware III, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 19, no. 15.

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