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42.
A GREEN JADE FISH FORM PENDANT
Western Zhou Dynasty (1027 – 771 B.C.)
of flattened form, incised on either side with a large round eye and a shallow arc suggesting the gills, a long dorsal fin rising along the curved back and two shorter fins on the belly, the bifurcated tail with beveled edge, the blunt snout pierced with a small hole, the polished surface with remains of cinnabar.
Length 3 1⁄4 inches (8.5 cm)
A similar green jade fish pendant is illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 229, no. 12:34 described as Western Zhou.
Compare also the jade fish ornament discovered at the Western Zhou cemeteries of the Yu State at Zhuyuangou, Baoji, Shaanxi province, illustrated by Lu and Hu, Baoji Yuguo mudi (Yu State Cemeteries in Baoji), Vol. 2, Beijing, 1988, pl. 39.5.
西周 魚形玉珮 長 8.5 厘米
42.
A GREEN JADE FISH FORM PENDANT
Western Zhou Dynasty (1027 – 771 B.C.)
Length 3 1⁄4 inches (8.5 cm)