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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
Lot 5

A pale 'yellow' jade sword-shaped pendant
Shang Dynasty or later

15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$22,812.50 inc. premium

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A pale 'yellow' jade sword-shaped pendant

Shang Dynasty or later
The blade with multiple softly-polished horizontal ribbed channels, resembling a silkworm, below a horizontal wider chape-like band and terminating in a stylized head (handle) with simplified eyes, the pendant of slender flattened oval cross-section, pierced at one end for suspension.
3 3/8in (8.5cm) long

Footnotes

商或更晚 黃玉雕劍形珮

It is quite conceivable that this carving is indeed meant to evoke a stylized representation of a silkworm. Their images in jade certainly existed by the late Shang dynasty as attested to by an example excavated at Ta Ssu K'ung 大司空衬 village in Anyang, see Ma Te-Chih et al., in Kaogu, 1955, No. 9, pl. 17:7. See also two small examples illustrated by Max Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1975, p. 133, no. 167.

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