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A large celadon jade pendant, huang, Han dynasty | 漢 青玉鳳鳥紋璜
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October 9, 07:30 AM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
A large celadon jade pendant, huang,
Han dynasty
漢 青玉鳳鳥紋璜
each side finely incised with a mythical creature with an undulating body, the hybrid animal rendered with a bird-like head and a dragon-form body, its head turns sharply backwards, its body depicted with clawed legs and feather-like curling fins, the principal side detailed with an additional bird-head two thirds along the length of the body
24.3 cm
Ku Ngar Antique Ltd, Hong Kong, 18th April 1991.
古雅閣，香港，1991年4月18日
Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 17:7.
羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版17:7
British Museum, London, on loan, 1995.
大英博物館，倫敦，借展，1995年