商晚期 / 西周 白玉鳥珮

sculpté en forme d'oiseau au corps allongé percé à l'avant, la longue queue droite fendue à l'extrêmité, la tête regardant vers l'avant, les pattes repliées sous le corps

1943年4月購自北京尊古齋主黃濬 (黃伯川，1880-1952年) (羅樾筆記記錄)
羅樾 (1903-1988年) 舊藏
J. J. Lally & Co.，紐約，1993年

《Early Chinese Jades. A Loan Exhibition Presented by the Museum of Art》， 密歇根大學， Alumni Memorial Hall，Ann Arbor，1953年3月22日 至 4月22日，編號85
《Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others》，J. J. Lally & Co.，紐約，1993年，編號68

羅樾，《Early Chinese Jades. A Loan Exhibition Presented by the Museum of Art》， 密歇根大學，Ann Arbor，1953年， 編號85
J. J. Lally & Co.，《Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others》，紐約，1993年，編號68

There is a tiny old shallow chip to the tip of the wings. The jade is smoothly polished and has encrustrations of earth in the recessed parts of the carving. The stone is not as white as the catalogue illustration suggests but of a slightly greyer tone.
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