Period:Shang dynasty Production date:15thC BC-10thC BC
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 3.60 centimetres Length: 4.90 centimetres
Description:
Bird pendant/plaque of creamy coloured calcified jade with surface pitting, earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar.
IMG
![图片[1]-pendant; plaque BM-2022-3034.112-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Shang dynasty/Jades/181_.jpg)
Comments:This bird silhouette may be a cormorant with long neck, hooked beak, the large wing delineated with a groove, bifurcated tail feathers and clawed feet. The eye of the bird is represented by a perforation whilst a second conical perforation runs through the breast. Shang/Early Western Zhou. Height 36 mm, length 54mm. See Rawson 1995, p.226, cat.no.12.28, Bluett 1973, and New Zealand 1937. This silhouette of a bird has a small head with a hole in place of an eye. The hooked beak, the long sinuous neck and the large rounded wing suggest a water bird, such as a cormorant. It has a short bifurcated tail, rather like that of a fish, and a large claw. There is a second hole at the breast. Birds of this type have come from Shang sites.
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 3.60 centimetres Length: 4.90 centimetres
Description:
Bird pendant/plaque of creamy coloured calcified jade with surface pitting, earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar.
IMG
Comments:This bird silhouette may be a cormorant with long neck, hooked beak, the large wing delineated with a groove, bifurcated tail feathers and clawed feet. The eye of the bird is represented by a perforation whilst a second conical perforation runs through the breast. Shang/Early Western Zhou. Height 36 mm, length 54mm. See Rawson 1995, p.226, cat.no.12.28, Bluett 1973, and New Zealand 1937. This silhouette of a bird has a small head with a hole in place of an eye. The hooked beak, the long sinuous neck and the large rounded wing suggest a water bird, such as a cormorant. It has a short bifurcated tail, rather like that of a fish, and a large claw. There is a second hole at the breast. Birds of this type have come from Shang sites.
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