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Lot 24
A SMALL JADE DRAGON-FISH HUMAN-HEAD PENDANT
Western Zhou Dynasty
20 March 2023, 08:30 EDT
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A SMALL JADE DRAGON-FISH HUMAN-HEAD PENDANT
Western Zhou Dynasty
Carved on both sides of the flat plaque in simple incised lines a simian-like head in profile composite with a dragon-head body and a short fish tail, drilled under the small tab on top of the head for stringing, the celadon jade smoothly polished, with remains of earth encrustation and cinnabar red on the surface.
2 1/4in (5.8cm) length
Carved on both sides of the flat plaque in simple incised lines a simian-like head in profile composite with a dragon-head body and a short fish tail, drilled under the small tab on top of the head for stringing, the celadon jade smoothly polished, with remains of earth encrustation and cinnabar red on the surface.
2 1/4in (5.8cm) length
Footnotes
西周 人首龍魚形玉珮
Published:
Ancient Chinese Jade: From the Neolithic to the Han, J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 2016, no. 52
Exhibited:
Ancient Chinese Jade: From the Neolithic to the Han, J. J. Lally & Co., New York, March 10-April 2, 2016, no. 52
出版：
《中國古代玉器：新石器時期至漢代》，紐約藍理捷中國文物，2016 年，圖版編號 52
展覽：
《中國古代玉器：新石器時期至漢代》，紐約藍理捷中國文物，2016 年 3 月 10 日至 4 月 2 日，展覽編號 52
Two very similar jade pendants of human and dragon design are illustrated in Yu shi zhi hun (Soul of Jade and Stone), Beijing, 2013, pp. 76 and 78, discovered from the Western Zhou cemetery at Fengxi, Zhangjiapo, Shaanxi province.
See also a jade pendant of this type with human and dragon design, strung as part of the ensemble necklace, in the collection of the Baoji Zhouyuan Museum, illustrated by the National Palace Museum, Taipei, in the catalog of the special exhibition, He he zong Zhou: Xi Zhou wenhua tezhan (The Cultural Grandeur of the Western Zhou Dynasty), Taipei, 2012, pp. 224-225.