LATE SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1300-1000 BC

Details

A JADE CARVING OF A DRAGON
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1300-1000 BC
1 1⁄4 in. (3.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 22 September 1997

Literature

Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 154, no. 77

Exhibited

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

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Lot Essay

It is very rare to find a jade carving of a dragon in the round from the Shang dynasty, the closest exmaple is a jade carving of a dragon discovered at the Fuhao tomb with the body coiled to the right, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-2-Shang, Zhou, Hebei, 1993, no. 58 (fig. 1). There is a peforation on the tail of the present carving, suggesting that this could have been worn as a pendant.

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