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Lot 46
A DRAGON-CARVED JADE DAGGER HANDLE
Tang - Five Dynasties
20 March 2023, 08:30 EDT
New YorkSold for US$88,575 inc. premium
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A DRAGON-CARVED JADE DAGGER HANDLE
Tang - Five Dynasties
Boldly chased and incised with a winged three-claw dragon flying in mid-air chasing a 'pearl just beyond its open jaws, the scaly serpentine body coiled between stylized cloud scrolls, capped with gilt bronze mount and with remnant of an iron blade, the olive-green stone smoothly polished and stained with iron rust from burial.
6 1/4in (16cm) length
Boldly chased and incised with a winged three-claw dragon flying in mid-air chasing a 'pearl just beyond its open jaws, the scaly serpentine body coiled between stylized cloud scrolls, capped with gilt bronze mount and with remnant of an iron blade, the olive-green stone smoothly polished and stained with iron rust from burial.
6 1/4in (16cm) length
Footnotes
唐-五代 青玉裝鎏金銅龍紋刀柄
A jade plaque carved in a very similar style with a three-claw winged dragon and scrolling clouds in the collection of the Tianjin Museum is illustrated by Bai (ed.), Tianjin bowuguan cang yu (Jade Wares Collected by the Tianjin Museum), Beijing, 2012, p. 132, no. 114, described as Tang – Five Dynasties.