HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day
HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day
A small yellow jade cicada pendant, Shang/Western Zhou dynasty | 商/西周 玉蟬
Auction Closed
December 8, 05:58 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A small yellow jade cicada pendant, Shang/Western Zhou dynasty
商/西周 玉蟬
the insect carved in relief from a rich yellow-brown stone, with bulging eyes and folded wings and slightly splayed tail, with a horizontal perforation through its pointed beak, with traces of cinnabar
Length 4 cm, 1⅝ in.
C.T. Loo, Paris.
Collection of Mr and Mrs Richard C. Bull.
Sotheby's New York, 6th December 1983, lot 154.
Richard C. Bull 伉儷收藏
紐約蘇富比1983年12月6日，編號154
Paul Pelliot, Jades Archaiques de Chine Appartenant a M. C.T. Loo, Paris and Brussels, 1925, pl. XXXIX:1.
Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 12:23.
Paul Pelliot，《Jades Archaiques de Chine Appartenant a M》， 盧芹齋,，布魯塞爾/巴黎，1925年， 編號XXXIX:1.
羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》， 倫敦，1995年，圖版12:23