Period:Shang dynasty Production date:12thC BC (circa)
Materials:jade, cinnabar,
Technique:incised, bevelled,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Length: 10.20 centimetres Width: 1.70 centimetres
Description:
Curved fish pendant of extensively calcified yellow jade with earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar.
IMG
![图片[1]-pendant BM-2022-3034.133-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Shang dynasty/Jades/482_.jpg)
Comments:The curved flat fish with pouting mouth and incised round eyes, gills and striated fins tapering to a flared and bifurcated tail. The dorsal fin has been bevelled to a sharp edge and a biconical perforation runs through its mouth. Shang. Length 102mm. See Keverne 1991, and Rawson 1995, p.228, cat.no.12.31. The fish is curved in an arc, as if leaping. It has a slightly widened snout, through which a hole passes. Like 265 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.132] and 417 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.150] , its round eye is incised, as is the half-moon of its gills. Incised lines along the back and under the belly represent fins, the dorsal fin having been bevelled to a sharp edge. The long tail, flared and bifurcated at the end, is undecorated. Fish curved in an arc are one of the most common types of jade. Those of the Shang period are, on average, shorter than the present example, which is more typical of the Western Zhou period. Many of the fish from Fu Hao’s tomb are quite short, but those carved from an existing ring tend to be somewhat larger.
Materials:jade, cinnabar,
Technique:incised, bevelled,
Subjects:fish
Dimensions:Length: 10.20 centimetres Width: 1.70 centimetres
Description:
Curved fish pendant of extensively calcified yellow jade with earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar.
IMG
Comments:The curved flat fish with pouting mouth and incised round eyes, gills and striated fins tapering to a flared and bifurcated tail. The dorsal fin has been bevelled to a sharp edge and a biconical perforation runs through its mouth. Shang. Length 102mm. See Keverne 1991, and Rawson 1995, p.228, cat.no.12.31. The fish is curved in an arc, as if leaping. It has a slightly widened snout, through which a hole passes. Like 265 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.132] and 417 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.150] , its round eye is incised, as is the half-moon of its gills. Incised lines along the back and under the belly represent fins, the dorsal fin having been bevelled to a sharp edge. The long tail, flared and bifurcated at the end, is undecorated. Fish curved in an arc are one of the most common types of jade. Those of the Shang period are, on average, shorter than the present example, which is more typical of the Western Zhou period. Many of the fish from Fu Hao’s tomb are quite short, but those carved from an existing ring tend to be somewhat larger.
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