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A celadon and russet jade snake, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period
作品估价：GBP 20,000 - 30,000
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拍品名称：
A celadon and russet jade snake, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period
拍品描述：
Length 5.8 cm, 2¼ in.
出处
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 18th December 1992.
图录说明
This unusual and exceptionally rare jade carving appears to be almost unique in its direct representation of a serpent but can be suitably compared to a small group of pendants characterised by sinuous bodies carved with a distinctive 'rope-twist' design. Compare a closely related dragon pendant preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Na Zhiliang,Yuqi cidian[Dictionary of Chinese jade], Hong Kong, 1985, fig. 0238; and another with the same twist-rope motif in the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated inHandbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1991, p. 9. See also a yellowish-celadon jade ‘dragon’ pendant, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 9th April 2024, lot 3611; and an excavated phoenix pendant with similar decoration, attributed to the late Warring States period, in the Anhui Provincial Institute of Archaeology, published in Yang Boda,Zhongguo yuqi quanji[Complete Collection of Chinese Jades], vol. 3, Hebei, 2005, pl. 284.
出处
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 18th December 1992.
图录说明
This unusual and exceptionally rare jade carving appears to be almost unique in its direct representation of a serpent but can be suitably compared to a small group of pendants characterised by sinuous bodies carved with a distinctive 'rope-twist' design. Compare a closely related dragon pendant preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Na Zhiliang,Yuqi cidian[Dictionary of Chinese jade], Hong Kong, 1985, fig. 0238; and another with the same twist-rope motif in the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated inHandbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1991, p. 9. See also a yellowish-celadon jade ‘dragon’ pendant, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 9th April 2024, lot 3611; and an excavated phoenix pendant with similar decoration, attributed to the late Warring States period, in the Anhui Provincial Institute of Archaeology, published in Yang Boda,Zhongguo yuqi quanji[Complete Collection of Chinese Jades], vol. 3, Hebei, 2005, pl. 284.