Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
TWO JADE 'DRAGON' CARVINGS EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 7TH-6TH CENTURY BC | 東周 公元前七至六世紀 玉龍紋珮一組兩件
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November 6, 06:16 PM GMT
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ARCHAIC AND ARCHAISTIC JADES FROM THE MICHAEL GULBENKIAN COLLECTION
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TWO JADE 'DRAGON' CARVINGS
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 7TH-6TH CENTURY BC
東周 公元前七至六世紀 玉龍紋珮一組兩件
of flattened coiled section, one side covered with a dense pattern of interlocking angular scrolls executed in pairs of incised lines with small comma-like ends, the translucent stone of celadon and pale brown tones
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Length 4.7 and 4.3 cm, 1⅞ and 1⅔ in.
M. Gulbenkian, Archaic Jades, Ancient and Modern, Arts of Asia, May-June 1983, p. 98
M. Gulbenkian，《Archaic Jades, Ancient and Modern》, Arts of Asia，1983年5月至6月， 第98頁
For a very similar coiled dragon openwork plaque, dated to the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, see A. Salmony, Archaic Jades from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, 1952, pl. LXXXV, no. 4. Compare also an arc-shaped pendant decorated with the same distinctive pattern from the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade. From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 265, cat. no. 17:4.