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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN For a near identical pair of pigs in size and design, see J.J. Lally &
Co., Arts of the Han Dynasty, New York, 1998, No. 10, where the
18 author refers to similarly modelled pigs illustrated by Max Loehr and
Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville
A PAIR OF GREEN, RUSSET AND CALCIFIED JADE PIGS Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
Han Dynasty
Each simply carved from a rectangular block of nephrite with features Massachusetts, 1975, p. 387, no. 555, where those authors cite
in a stylized form using strong slanting cuts to delineate the bodies, a very similar example found in an early Eastern Han tomb at
legs and heads, three simple lines engraved behind the snouts with a Beizhuang, Dingxian, Hebei which was assigned on epigraphic
pierced tab to the underside, a further pierced tab to the tail, all with a evidence to the period 56-88 CE and illustrated in Kaogu Xuebao,
high degree of polish. 1964, no. 2, p. 148, fig. 4.
4 1/2in (11.4cm) long
Jessica Rawson illustrates another pair, similar in color to ours,
Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum,
$15,000 - 25,000 London, 1995, pp.319-320, no. 24:10 and notes that “carvings in
the shape of recumbent pigs are found in many Han tombs. It has
漢 玉豬一對 been assumed that they were weights, although they sometimes
appear clasped in the hands of the dead.”
Provenance
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Limited, New York, 2001 James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, Asia Society, New
York, cites a pig illustrated in Kaogu, 1974, no. 2, p. 121, as the
Literature earliest documented example of a pair of jade pigs found in the hands
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Limited, Auspicious Jade Animals, New York, of a body in a burial tomb in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, which has been dated
2001, No. 2 to the end of the third century BCE.

來源 For other examples see Zhou Nanquan (ed.) Gugong Bowyuyuan Tsan
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Limited, 紐約, 2001年 Wenwu Jenping Quanji, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Jadeware (1), Hong Kong, 1995,, p. 233, no. 194;
出版 Chinese Jade Animals, Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1996, pp.68-69,
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Limited, Auspicious Jade Animals, 紐約, 2001年, no. 38; and Wu Hung and Brian Morgan, Chinese Jades from the
圖錄編號2 Mu-Fei Collection, Bluett & Sons Ltd., 1990, no. 29.

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