Property from a North American Private Collection
Two archaic jade fish-form pendants, Shang - Western Zhou dynasty | 商至西周 玉雕魚形珮兩件
Auction Closed
March 17, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Two archaic jade fish-form pendants
Shang - Western Zhou dynasty
商至西周 玉雕魚形珮兩件
each of elongated rectangular form depicting a fish in profile, the head with large incised circular eyes and curved gill, the body detailed with fins and terminating in a bifurcated tail, the mouth pierced with a small aperture, the stone of a variegated celadon color (2)
Length of larger 3 ⅜ in., 8.6 cm
Collection of John Story Jenks (1876-1946), and thence by descent.
來源
John Story Jenks (1876-1946) 收藏，此後家族傳承
Chinese Art in the Philadelphia Collections, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1937.
展覽
《Chinese Art in the Philadelphia Collections》，費城藝術博物館，費城，1937年