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A ‘YELLOW’ JADE MYTHICAL BIRD PENDANT A FINE OLIVE-CELADON AND CALCIFIED JADE
Western Zhou Dynasty or later SCABBARD SLIDE
Of flattened horizontal format, the head with a simple up-crest and Han Dynasty
hooked beak, the wings simply delineated and with muscular legs Of slightly curved rectangular outline and extremely well and sensitively
and claws and terminating in a simple notched tail, pierced three carved in relief to one side with a sinuous chilong facing a smaller
times for suspension, the stone even-toned and with traces of dragon, hui, within a beaded edge, the underside with the requisite
earth encrustation. rectangular loop placed off-center.
2 3/4in (7cm) wide 3 3/4in (9.5cm) across

$1,000 - 1,500 $6,000 - 9,000

西周或更晚 鳥形玉珮 漢 螭龍紋玉劍璏

For other Western Zhou Dynasty or later examples see Gugong Compare similar slides illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade
Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995, pp.299-
Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware I, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 302, no’s 21:11 - 21:16. See also a slide with dragons carved in higher
109, no. 90; J.J. Lally, Oriental Art, Ancient Chinese Jades, New York, relief and dated to the Western Han illustrated by Max Loehr, Ancient
March 2018, no. 85; and Yang Boda, Chinese Archaic Jades from the Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg
Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Art Museum, Harvard University, 1975, p. 395, no. 572.
1994, no. 93, dated late Shang dynasty.
See another example of yellow tone sold at Christie’s, Hong Kong,
‘Adorning the Kings - A private Collection of Archaic Jade Ornaments’,
31 May 2017, lot 2706; a slide also from the Robert Youngman
Collection, see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 3 April 2019, lot 3448 and
dated to the Western Han dynasty; and another illustrated by J.J. Lally
& Co., Arts of the Han Dynasty, March-April, 1998, no. 12. For a slide
of slightly higher relief, dated to the Western Han era, in the Qing Court
collection, see see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji
(Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware I,
Hong Kong, 1995, p. 220, no.183.
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