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

Lot 248

A CALCIFIED JADE 'BIRD' PE NDANT, SHANG DYNASTY OR LATER
Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000 USD

A CALCIFIED JADE 'BIRD' PENDANT
SHANG DYNASTY OR LATER
商或更晚 玉鳥形飾

the flat stone worked in the form of a recumbent bird in profile, detailed with incised feathers, pierced at the beak with an aperture
for suspension, the heavily calcified stone a reddish-brown color

Length 1½ in., 3.7 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
Jade bird-form pendants of this type were made during both the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, with an interesting feature to
distinguish between the two periods. The carved lines on Shang bird pendants are usually slanted on both edges; the lines on
Western Zhou pendants, on the other hand, are typically slanted only on one edge, a technique called yimianpo (one slanted edge),
which is believed to have developed during the late Shang period and became very popular during the Western Zhou dynasty. See
related Shang dynasty examples, such as two excavated in Anyang, Henan province in 1953, now in the National Museum of China,

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