商 玉鸕鶿珮

sculpté en forme de cormoran allongé, la tête relevée au bec crochu et aux yeux ronds protubérants, le corps replet percé à l'avant d'un petit trou, la pierre gris olive clair avec des marques plus foncées

1945年2月購自北京 (羅樾筆記記錄)
羅樾 (1903-1988年) 舊藏
J. J. Lally & Co.，紐約，1993年

《Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others》，J. J. Lally & Co.，紐約，1993年，編號67

J. J. Lally & Co.，《Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others》，紐約，1993年，編號67

The stone is smoothly polished and of a slightly darker colour than the catalogue illustration suggests.
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Compare a very similar small bird-shaped jade pendant from the Hotung Collection, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade. From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 226, cat. no. 12.:28.