A jade scabbard slide, Western Han dynasty | 西漢 青玉獸面勾雲紋劍璏

Acquired from Mr Yip Wai Tat, Hong Kong, 1990s.

1990年代購於香港葉偉特先生

The production of jade scabbard slides decorated with a beast mask and cloud pattern probably had been standardised in the Western Han dynasty, as the patterns are found highly similar. See two closely related examples, one exhibited in the British Museum, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p.300, pl. 12:12; another one is in the Human Museum, published in Yang Boda, zhongguo yuqi quanji, Shijiazhuang, 2005, vol.4, pl. 212.

青玉質，白沁，正面呈長方形，背面內彎，表面浮雕獸面紋及勾雲紋，線體細膩，打磨精潔。

此類獸面勾雲紋劍璏西漢似有定式，紋樣皆如出一轍，如大英博物館曾展出一件，及湖南省博物館藏一件，與本件幾如同出一手，分別著錄於Jessica Rawson著，《Chinese Jade From the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995，頁300，圖版21:12；楊伯達編，《中國玉器全集》，石家莊，2005年，卷4，圖版212。