Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Property from the Collection of Dr. Maurice Berger
Two green jade plaques and a jade 'dragon' pendant, Eastern Zhou - Han dynasty | 東周至漢 玉蟠虺紋牌兩件及玉龍形珮
Auction Closed
September 20, 05:51 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Two green jade plaques and a jade 'dragon' pendant
Eastern Zhou - Han dynasty
東周至漢 玉蟠虺紋牌兩件及玉龍形珮
together with a re-carved jade blade (Ge) (4)
及 玉戈
Length of longest 4⅜ in., 11.1 cm
The lot:
Collection of Mr. Myron S. (1907-1992) and Mrs. Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000).
Christie's New York, 21st September 2001, lot 517.
The jade blade:
Mathias Komor, New York, September 1955.
Myron S. (1907-1992) 及 Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000) 伉儷收藏
紐約佳士得2001年9月21日，編號517
玉戈：
Mathias Komor，紐約，1955年9月
The two plaques are of a type incorporated into ritual face coverings. Their small size and exceptional thinness were ideal to conform to an irregular shape, and the small corner holes were used to secure the plaques to fabric backing. For further discussion and examples of this type in the British Museum, London, see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from Neolithic to the Qing, London, p. 316, fig. 4. The small dragon-form pendant most likely formed part of an elaborate necklace; a related example is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, cat. no. 423.