J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
75.
AN ARCHAIC JADE TWIN DRAGONS PENDANT (HUANG)
Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 10th – 9th Century B.C.
finely carved on both sides of the thick arc with a matching pair of dragon-beasts, the heads at either end and the tails entwined at the center amidst a symmetrical arrangement of winged scroll designs and scale motifs, each head shown in profile with a large eye, blunt snout and a rising mane of hair over short horns, with one short foreleg ending in triple talons curled tightly under the chin, drilled at either end for stringing, one end cut down in antiquity and re-drilled with a suspension hole at the edge, the translucent yellowish green stone of even tone, showing extensive remains of cinnabar red.
Width 4 5⁄8 inches (11.8 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 71
Compare the jade huang similarly carved with a design of twin dragon-beasts in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 2, Shijiazhuang, 1993, p. 209, no. 292. Another jade huang of closely related form excavated in 1982 from a Western Zhou site at Tengxian, Shandong province is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji: gongyi meishu bian (Compendium of Chinese Art: Artifacts), Vol. 9, Jades, Beijing, 1986, p. 43, no. 82.
Compare also the smaller huang of closely related design from the Pillsbury Collection, illustrated by Peterson (ed.), Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, London, 1977, p. 101, no. 103.
西周早期 雙龍紋玉璜 寬11.8厘米
來源 藍理捷1993特展圖錄第71號
