Chinese Jades from the Xianquxuan Collection

Chinese Jades from the Xianquxuan Collection

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Two pale celadon jade ‘gong’ pendants, Han dynasty | 漢 青白玉工字珮兩件

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December 5, 03:58 AM GMT

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40,000 - 80,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

Two pale celadon jade ‘gong’ pendants

Han dynasty

漢 青白玉工字珮兩件


2.9 cm and 2 cm

Ku Ngar Antique Limited, Hong Kong, 4th December 2000.


古雅閣,香港,2000年12月4日

A few jade pendants in similar shape, however, less translucent than the present lot, are in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, Beijing, 2011, vol. 4, pls. 186-203.


青白玉質,呈工字形,中鼓邊薄,腰部橫穿孔,打磨細膩光鑒。 

北京故宮藏有一眾漢代工字珮,皆青玉質,惟不及此兩件透潤,見《故宮博物院藏品大系玉器編》,北京,2011年,卷4,圖版186至203。