J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
MenuPast Exhibition
Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
90.
AN ARCHAIC JADE OPENWORK LONG PENDANT
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, circa 5th-4th Century B.C.
of flattened form, pierced and carved with pairs of beaked and winged dragons projecting from the long borders of the oblong center panel carved on both sides with a lively pattern of raised comma shape scroll motifs within raised borders, drilled with a longitudinal channel for stringing, the translucent yellowish green stone with glossy surface showing traces of cinnabar red.
Length 3 3⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 81
A similar jade openwork long pendant of smaller size in the collection of the British Museum is illustrated by Rawson and Ayers, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, London, 1975, no. 133, with description on p. 54.
Compare the smaller jade pendant of related form unearthed from a Warring States tomb at Yanggongxiang, Chengfeng county, Anhui province, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum), Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 177, no. 147.
Compare also the two smaller jade pendants of related form excavated from tomb no. 1 at Shangwangcun, Linzi, Shandong province, now in the Zibo Museum, illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 4, Shandong, Beijing, 2005, p. 193.
東周 透雕條形玉飾 長8.6厘米
來源 藍理捷1993特展圖錄第81號
90.
AN ARCHAIC JADE OPENWORK LONG PENDANT
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, circa 5th-4th Century B.C.
Length 3 3⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)