J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
118.
A PAIR OF LARGE ARCHAIC JADE PENDANTS (HUANG)
Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. – A.D. 9)
each dark green jade plaque in the form of a shallow arc with angled ends cut flat, with a line of incised inscription on one end, decorated on both sides with incised spirals on low rounded bosses in a geometric grid enclosed by simple line borders, the surface altered in burial to cloudy beige on the reverse, pierced at the center edge for stringing.
Length 7 7⁄8 inches (20 cm)
Compare the similar pair of jade plaques unearthed from a Han dynasty tomb in Wanggoucun, Jingning, Gansu province, illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 15, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xingjiang, Beijing, 2005, p. 100.
西漢 大玉璜一對 長20厘米
