Asian Arts / 5000 Years
Asian Arts / 5000 Years
PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION | 歐洲私人收藏
Lot Closed
December 21, 01:12 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
An archaic pale celadon jade ‘bird’ pendant
Shang dynasty or Western Zhou dynasty, 11th - 9th century BC
Length 7.6 cm, 3 in.
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Collection particulière européenne
Pendentif en jade céladon pâle archaïque en forme d'oiseau, dynastie Shang ou dynastie des Zhou occidentaux, XIe - IXe siècle avant J.C.
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歐洲私人收藏
商或西周 公元前十一至九世紀 青白玉鳥形珮
Andrew Kahane Ltd., New York, 6th January 1993.
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Andrew Kahane Ltd.，紐約，1993年1月6日
Compare a closely related bird pendant from the collection of the British Museum, attributed to Western Zhou period (11th – 10 century BC.), illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995. pl. 12:29 (middle), p. 227; one in the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated in Chugoku Kodai no Bijutsu [Ancient Chinese arts in the Idemitsu collection], Tokyo, 1978, cat. no. 103 (top middle row); a related example, in a slightly slimer form, illustrated in Deng Shuping, Qunyu biecang / Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1995, pl.28, p. 106.
