MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 950-850 BC

Details

A JADE DRAGON-HUMAN FORM PENDANT
MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 950-850 BC
4 5⁄16 in. (11 cm.) high

Provenance

Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 5 September 1997

Literature

Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 147, no. 70

Exhibited

The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999

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Lot Essay

Compare to a very similar celadon jade carving in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-2-Shang, Western Zhou, Hebei, 1993, nos. 219-220 (fig. 1).

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