- 3438
A GLASS CICADA HAN DYNASTY |
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 HKD
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Description
- 4.5 cm, 1 3/4 in.
the flattened pebble worked in the form of a stylised cicada with protruding eyes and incised details, the glass of a celadon tone with russet patches and traces of calcification
Provenance
J.J. Lally & Co., New York.
Literature
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 59.
Catalogue Note
Compare a similar jade cicada in the Royal Ontario Museum, dated to the Eastern Han dynasty, illustrated in Dohrenwend, Chinese Jades in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1971, p. 93.