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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE AND FINE WHITE AND RUSET JADE 'DRAGON'
PENDANT, XI
PROBABLY JINCUN, HENAN PROVINCE, WARRING STATES PERIOD
(475-221 B.C.)
The pendant is carved and pierced in the shape of a horned dragon with The shape and polish of this ornament is closely related to an excavated
arched body, stretched back legs and long tapering tail. The surface is finely example, now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, excavated from the 4th-3rd
polished and drilled from one side at the back of the eye for suspension. The century B.C. tombs at Jincun, near present day Luoyang, which are thought
stone is of a semi-translucent white tone with small areas of black and russet
to have been the buriel tombs of the Zhou Royal family. The present xi may
inclussions.
also be stylistically compared with the dragon and phoenix-shaped ornament
4 3/8 in. (11.1cm.) long
from the Warring States period, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Adorning the
£60,000-80,000 US$77,000-100,000 Kings, a Private Collection of Archaic Jade Ornaments, 31 May 2017, lot 2726.
€66,000-88,000
貴族私人珍藏
PROVENANCE:
The Collection of Baron and Baroness von Oertzen, Johannesburg, South 戰國 褐白玉龍形觿
Africa, acquired prior to 1969.
Christie's London, 4 November 2008, lot 127. 來源:
Property from a Princely Collection. von Oertzen男爵伉儷舊藏, 南非, 約翰內斯堡, 於1969年前購入
倫敦佳士得, 2008年11月4日, 拍品127號
LITERATURE:
S. Howard Hansford, Jade: Essence of Hills and Streams, Johannesburg, 1969,
p.83, no. B39. 出版:
S. Howard Hansford,《Jade: Essence of Hills and Streams》約翰內斯堡, 1969年, 83頁, 圖版
B39

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