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A JADE 'TAOTIE MASK' PENDANT SPRING AND AUTUMN – WARRING STATES PERIOD |
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 HKD
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Description
- 4.4 cm, 1 3/4 in.
the arc top carved with a taotie mask, pierced with apertures along the perimeter, of translucent off-white nephrite with russet inclusions
Exhibited
Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 110.
Literature
Roger Keverne (ed.), Jade, London, 1991, p. 103, fig. 25.