A JADE 'FIGURE' PENDANT, HAN DYNASTY

carved in the round as a standing dignitary with eyes and mouth incised, the head and hands pierced to thread a string, the smooth stone of a pale celadon colour with russet highlights and a dark brown back

Collection of Louise Hawley Stone, col. no. 75.

The jade figure is in good condition, with the exception of a tiny nick to the left tip of the figure's hat, some more near both hands, and further minor nicks to the extremities.
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An individual jade figure modelled in a similar standing posture, excavated in 1980 from Ganquan Shan, Hanjiang District, Jiangsu province, and now preserved in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji. 4. Qin, Han-Nanbeichao [Complete Collection of Chinese Jades. 4. Qin, Han to Northern and Southern Dynasties], Hebei, 1994, pl. 248; and another example, from the collection of Mrs. C. Holmes, is included in the exhibition Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 228.