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A Turquoise matrix coiled 'pig-dragon' pendant Shang Dynasty or later image 1
A Turquoise matrix coiled 'pig-dragon' pendant Shang Dynasty or later image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
Lot 7

A Turquoise matrix coiled 'pig-dragon' pendant
Shang Dynasty or later

15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$800 - US$1,200

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A Turquoise matrix coiled 'pig-dragon' pendant

Shang Dynasty or later
The flattened coiled dragon neatly delineated with ridged channels to depict the wide-eyed open-mouthed beast with short coiling body and tapered tail, the spine marked with simple diamond-shaped hatching, all topped by a simple knop crest, pierced to the center from both sides for suspension some inclusions to the mostly turquoise stone.
1 3/16in (4.3cm) high

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商或更晚 綠松石豬龍形珮

A near identical white and gray jade example sold at Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Works of Art: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull, 6 December 1983, lot 149 and later illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, 1995, London, British Museum, p. 210, no. 12:3, where the author notes the unusual use of a vertical bottle horn and the fine thread relief decoration that form meanders, scrolls and chevrons combined with incised lozenges (as with our example) that run the length of the spine. She continues "Thread relief such as that on this jade is a feature of only a few Shang period jades. It was, however, one of the major types of decoration on neolithic jades of the Longshan and Shijiahe cultures, and it is clear that Shijiahe jades with relief decoration were known to the Shang".

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