A yellow jade 'parrot' plaque Late Shang dynasty | 商晚期黃玉鸚鵡珮

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April 22, 03:40 AM GMT

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150,000 - 200,000 HKD

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Property from the Kuan Yi Ju Collection

A yellow jade 'parrot' plaque

Late Shang dynasty

寬以居珍藏

商晚期黃玉鸚鵡珮

the warm yellow stone of flat arc form and rendered in openwork, depicted with a tall double-crest above a protruding beak, each side of the body worked in low relief with scrollwork

9.3 cm

The Hei-Chi Collection.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th April 2010, lot 2012.

熙墀收藏

香港蘇富比2010年4月8日，編號2012

Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 45.

姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉》，北京，2006年，頁45

Compare with a similar jade bird, illustrated in Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China, reprinted by Han-Shan Tang, London, 1982, pl. XVIII, no. 1.

A yellow jade 'parrot' plaque Late Shang dynasty | 商晚期 黃玉鸚鵡珮

A yellow jade 'parrot' plaque Late Shang dynasty | 商晚期黃玉鸚鵡珮