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A WHITE JADE CICADA FORM PENDANT
Late Shang/ early Western Zhou Dynasty, circa 11th Century B.C.
with finely detailed plump segmented body curving down to a pointed tail, the folded wings with incised outlines and scroll motifs, the blunt head with bulging eyes, a pierced tab for stringing on the underside, the translucent white jade showing traces of earth and cinnabar.
Length 15⁄16 inch (2.4 cm)
Compare the very similar jade cicada form pendant published by So, Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, p. 68, no. 10a.
Compare also the jade pendant of similar form in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cangpin daxi: yuqi bian (Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade), Vol. 2, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Beijing, 2011, p. 184, no. 206, described as Shang.
Another small jade pendant of similar form in the Aurora Foundation Collection is illustrated by Teng, Qunyu biecang xuji (Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades), Taipei, 1999, p. 182, no. 105, described as Western Zhou.
商晚期 / 西周早期 蟬形玉飾 長 2.4 厘米
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62.
A WHITE JADE CICADA FORM PENDANT
Late Shang/ early Western Zhou Dynasty, circa 11th Century B.C.
Length 15⁄16 inch (2.4 cm)