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A PALE GREENISH-YELLOW AND A CELADON JADE CARVING OF A
RUSSET TIGER-FORM PENDANT BUFFALO
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The jade is carved in the round as a recumbent buffalo with incised
The flattened pendant is carved as a tiger in profile with trapezoidal archaistic scrolls on the body and horns.
eye, short bottle horn and bent legs, with a hole drilled through 2 Ω in. (6.2 cm.) wide, box
the coiled tail and another through the mouth. The soft polished
stone is of a pale greenish-yellow tone with some russet inclusions HK$80,000-120,000 US$11,000-16,000
and partially altered surfaces. PROVENANCE
1 —/”ÿ in. (4.1 cm.) wide, box Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1991

HK$80,000-120,000 US$11,000-16,000 The forward-facing recumbent posture, block-like body and archaistic
scroll decoration are all very similar to a jade water buffalo (6.2 cm.)
PROVENANCE from the tomb of the Shang queen, Fu Hao, consort of king Wu Ding,
Dr. Robert Bloch at Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in The Jades from Yinxu, Beijing,
Sold at Christie’s New York, 3 December 1992, lot 184 1981, no. 77 (410).
Lantien Shanfang Collection, Taipei

LITERATURE 商 玉臥牛
Robert Bloch, Jade, Munich, 1979, p. 79, no. 24, and bottom col.
pl. opposite p. 81 來源
藍田山房舊藏，1991年購於台北
商晚期／西周早期 玉虎形珮 此玉臥牛的形態、雕刻風格及表面布滿雙陰線紋飾之特與殷墟婦好墓出
土的一件玉臥牛十分近似，見《殷墟玉器》，北京，1981年，圖版77號
來源 （410）。
Dr Robert Bloch
紐約佳士得，1992年12月3日，拍品184號
藍田山房舊藏，台北

出版
Robert Bloch，《Jade》，慕尼黑，1979年，頁79，圖版24
號，及頁81對頁下面彩圖

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