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A DARK CELADON JADE PARROT-FORM
PENDANT
SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
The jade is carved as a flattened parrot with a high crest shown in profile. Both sides
are incised with double-line details. There is a tiny hole pierced through the top of the
pendant, and a short trapezoidal blade on the opposite end. The stone is of a dark celadon
tone with areas of beige-russet alteration.
3 ¿ in. (7.8 cm.) long, box
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000

PROVENANCE
Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Chicago in 1993
Compare to a very similar but slightly larger jade parrot-form pendant (11.2 cm. high) without
the short blade excavated from the tomb of the Shang queen Fu Hao at Yinxu, Anyang, Henan
province, illustrated in The Jades from Yinxu, Beijing, 1981, no 47 (352).

商 玉鸚鵡形珮

來源
養德堂舊藏，1993年購於芝加哥
比較殷墟婦好墓出土的一件略大玉鸚鵡珮（11.2公分），其造型及陰刻細節處理與此近乎相同，
但未如此件於尾端加上刻刀，見《殷墟玉器》，北京，1981年，圖版47號（352）。

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