Description:
A HANDLE-SHAPED WHITE JADE PENDANT
China, late Shang dynasty, 13th-11th century. The greyish-white stone mottled with russet and dark-brown veins. Note the unctuous natural patina. Pierced for suspension.
Provenance: From a European private collection.
Published: 4000 Years of Chinese Archaic Jades, The Development of the Jade-Carving Tradition from the Neolithic to the Han Dynasty, by Professor Filippo Salviati, Edition Zacke, Vienna 2017, lot 146.
Condition: Good condition with few natural flaws and areas of erosion to the stone, very little nibbling to edges, old wear.
Weight: 68.7 grams
Dimensions: Length 18 cm
Handle-shaped carvings such as the present lot belong to a small group inspired by Erlitou models. The current handle, which has a squared section, a pointed tip and a decoration of leaf-like motifs carved regularly along the corners, is almost an exact match with one from Fu Hao’s tomb, as reproduced in CASS 1980, plate 115, number 555.
Literature comparison: See also Rawson 1996, pages 36-38 number 13.2 for a comparative piece in the Hotung collection.
白玉配飾
中國,商朝晚期, 公元前十三至十一世紀。灰白色玉石, 赤褐色和深棕色紋理,包漿潤澤,鑽孔。
來源:歐洲私人收藏
出版: 4000 Years of Chinese Archaic Jades, The Development of the Jade-Carving Tradition from the Neolithic to the Han Dynasty, by Professor Filippo Salviati, Edition Zacke, Vienna 2017, lot 146.
品相:良好品相,些微天然瑕疵和腐蝕,邊沿処極小的磕損,舊時磨損。
重量:68.7 克
尺寸:長 18 厘米