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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 260

A PALE CELADON JADE HAIR ORNAMENT, MING DYNASTY
Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD

A PALE CELADON JADE HAIR ORNAMENT
MING DYNASTY
明 青白玉雕饕餮紋髮冠

of oblong form, the two longer sides each carved with an archaistic taotie in low relief, the top with a pair of C-scrolls flanking two
ruyi-shaped brackets centering a circle, pierced at the ends to secure a hairpin, the stone a pale grayish-celadon with faint russet
veining to one side

Length 2¼ in., 5.6 cm

Provenance
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
The present piece is rare for its form and decoration, as other hair ornaments from the Ming dynasty usually feature scalloped or
round tops with plain surfaces. For example, see two illustrated in Studies of the National Museum of China: Jades / Zhongguo guo
jia bo wu guan guan cang wen wu yan jiu cong shu: Yu qi juan, Shanghai, 2007, pls 233 & 234. For a jade hair ornament carved with
a border of archaistic dragons, attributed to the Song dynasty, see one formerly in the Winthrop Collection and illustrated in Jenny

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