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A large celadon jade pendant, huang, Han dynasty | 漢 青玉鳳鳥紋璜

Auction Closed

October 9, 07:30 AM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

A large celadon jade pendant, huang

Han dynasty

漢 青玉鳳鳥紋璜


each side finely incised with a mythical creature with an undulating body, the hybrid animal rendered with a bird-like head and a dragon-form body, its head turns sharply backwards, its body depicted with clawed legs and feather-like curling fins, the principal side detailed with an additional bird-head two thirds along the length of the body


24.3 cm

Ku Ngar Antique Ltd, Hong Kong, 18th April 1991.


古雅閣,香港,1991年4月18日

Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 17:7.


羅森,《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》,倫敦,1995年,圖版17:7

British Museum, London, on loan, 1995.


大英博物館,倫敦,借展,1995年