A rare yellowish-green jade 'bird of prey' carving Neolithic period, late Hongshan culture | 新石器時代紅山文化晚期黃青玉鳥

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June 10, 03:15 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 EUR

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Property from the Bei Zu collection

A rare yellowish-green jade 'bird of prey' carving

Neolithic period, late Hongshan culture

naturalistically carved grasping a smaller bird or mammal in its beak and clasping a fish in its claws, its head detailed with bulging eyes and its wings feathers rendered with hatched incisions, the reverse pierced with two holes for suspension, the stone of pale yellowish-green colour

8 cm, 3⅛ in.

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Rare oiseau de proie en jade céladon pâle, période néolithique, culture de Hongshan

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北祖珍藏

新石器時代紅山文化晚期黃青玉鳥

8 公分， 3⅛英寸

Other related bird of prey jade carvings dated to the Hongshan period include two examples in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Teng Shu-ping, Selected Jades in the National Palace Museum, Volume One, ‘The Spirit of Jade, I’, Taipei, 2019, nos. I-056 and I-057, pp. 319-320. It may represent an osprey which is the only bird of prey that would eat both fish and small mammals. It traditionally represents a symbol of marital fidelity.

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其他紅山文化時期鴟鴞玉雕作例，可比較台北故宮博物院收藏兩例，圖載於鄧淑蘋，《故宮玉器精選全集：第一卷玉之靈．I》，台北，編號I-056及I-057，頁319-320。本品所刻劃之鳥或為魚鷹，後者是唯一兼食魚及哺乳類小動物之鷙鳥，傳統象徵夫妻忠誠相守。