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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN For a pendant of near identical form but of flatter design from the
British Museum, see Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society,
14 1973-74/1974-75, London, 1976, in a special edition for the exhibition
A WHITE AND GREY JADE ‘CRESTED OWL’ PENDANT ‘Chinese Jade throughout the ages’, organised by the Arts Council
Shang Dynasty of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society at the Victoria and
Of curving outline, the flattened pendant carved with a large notched Albert Museum, 1st May - 22nd June 1975, p. 37, no. 63. Unlike ours,
crest above an owl head with small ears and hooked beak, the body it is calcified, but it does have some dark markings within the matrix.
with simple scrolls delineating the wing feathers, terminating in a large Another is illustrated by Sherman Lee, China 5000 Years, Innovation
coiled tail and simple clawed feet, pierced at both ends for suspension, and Transformation in the Arts, Guggenheim Museum, New York,
the stone of even white tone with grey-black inclusions at the tail, 1997, no. 10 (3), and was unearthed in 1976 from the Fu Hao tomb
traces of red pigments. no. 5 in Anyang, Henan Province and now in the Henan Province
3 1/8in (8cm) across Museum, Zhengzhou.

$15,000 - 20,000 For another Shang dynasty, Anyang period (circa. 1200 BCE.) crested
bird pendant, see John Finlay, The Chinese Collection, Selected Works
from the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2003, pp. 110-
商 灰白玉鴞紋珮 111, no. 24. Among the many jades discovered in the Fu Hao tomb
were twenty-one crested bird pendants. Jessica Rawson has outlined
the development of these birds and their relationship with Shang
human figures with similar crests, see Chinese Jade from the Neolithic
to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995, pp. 218-219 no. 12:14.

See also another example illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang
Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum) Jadeware I, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 70, no. 60.

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