Period:Shang dynasty Production date:15thC BC-10thC BC
Materials:jade
Technique:carved, bevelled,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Length: 9.20 centimetres
Description:
White jade fish pendant huang.
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Comments:See Jesicca Rawson, 1995, pg. 25, Leaping fish, carved from a collared disc. This jade was not individually referenced in the catalogue as it was a late acquisition. JR’s suggestion is that it was cut from a broken collared ring. Christies description: The arched body marked by a long, l striated dorsal fin, softly bevelled as it approaches the bifurcated tail, is typical of Late Shang, Anyang period fish pendants. The full and fine modeling is unusual. The other type of fish huang popular in the Shang is often characterised by body decor in the form of geometric scales and a pectoral fin that is serrated. The present lot can be compared with excavated Anyang period jade fish from the Fu Hao and other tombs of Anyang, see Yinxu Fu Hao mu, Beijing, n.d. fig. 89:7, p. 171; fig. 96.3 , p. 125, pl. C1:1 (upper); and Yang Jianfeng, Jade Carving in Chinese Archaeology, Hong Kong, 1987, Pl. V11:4 A group of fish pendants with the extended fins but with flat bodies was included in the C.T. Loo exhibition, Chinese Archaic Jades, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1952, Catalogue, pl. XIX, 1,3,4 and 7-9 The thick arched body carved in the round and sharply bevelled on top to form the long, striated dorsal fin, and then more softly bevelled as it approaches the bifurcated tail and along the sides of the belly between the pectoral fins which project as right-angle flanges from either side, the tapering head carved with large simple eyes and pierced with a biconical hole through the mouth below an upturned tip, with some opaque cloudiness, in the softly polished, semi-translucent white stone. Length 3-5/8 in. (9.2 cm). Late Shang Dynasty, Anyang Period, ca 1300-1100 BC.
Materials:jade
Technique:carved, bevelled,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Length: 9.20 centimetres
Description:
White jade fish pendant huang.
IMG
Comments:See Jesicca Rawson, 1995, pg. 25, Leaping fish, carved from a collared disc. This jade was not individually referenced in the catalogue as it was a late acquisition. JR’s suggestion is that it was cut from a broken collared ring. Christies description: The arched body marked by a long, l striated dorsal fin, softly bevelled as it approaches the bifurcated tail, is typical of Late Shang, Anyang period fish pendants. The full and fine modeling is unusual. The other type of fish huang popular in the Shang is often characterised by body decor in the form of geometric scales and a pectoral fin that is serrated. The present lot can be compared with excavated Anyang period jade fish from the Fu Hao and other tombs of Anyang, see Yinxu Fu Hao mu, Beijing, n.d. fig. 89:7, p. 171; fig. 96.3 , p. 125, pl. C1:1 (upper); and Yang Jianfeng, Jade Carving in Chinese Archaeology, Hong Kong, 1987, Pl. V11:4 A group of fish pendants with the extended fins but with flat bodies was included in the C.T. Loo exhibition, Chinese Archaic Jades, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1952, Catalogue, pl. XIX, 1,3,4 and 7-9 The thick arched body carved in the round and sharply bevelled on top to form the long, striated dorsal fin, and then more softly bevelled as it approaches the bifurcated tail and along the sides of the belly between the pectoral fins which project as right-angle flanges from either side, the tapering head carved with large simple eyes and pierced with a biconical hole through the mouth below an upturned tip, with some opaque cloudiness, in the softly polished, semi-translucent white stone. Length 3-5/8 in. (9.2 cm). Late Shang Dynasty, Anyang Period, ca 1300-1100 BC.
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