Period:Western Zhou dynasty Production date:11thC BC-8thC BC
Materials:jade (?), nephrite (?),
Technique:carved
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Width: 5.70 centimetres
Description:
Leaf-green jade human-form pendant.
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Comments:The thin, translucent plaque carved on either side with a human figure shown in profile seated with legs tightly drawn up beneath the arms and torso formed by the coiled body of a dragon, with a pendant, scrolled tail below, the head raised on a thin neck and surmounted by another dragon arched backward to form the hair and drilled through its coiled tail, the details indicated by grooves and the edges notched to conform to the outline of the design, the unusual stone of bright green colour with satiny polish, minor chips. Late Western Zhou Dynasty. Plaque decorated with human like creatures and dragons. Western Zhou period, 9th century BC. Christies: This exquisitely delicate piece of leaf-green nephrite is a spectacular example of Late Western Zhou semi-human imagery. Its exact cousin is represented by the 7.2 cm. tall plaque version l, of identical leaf green neprhite- from excavations in 1976 at Tanghu in Xinzheng County, Henan province, Wenwu ziliao, congkan: 2, 1978, figs &:5 and 65. This leaf-green colour of jade is also known by examples of similar date from Puducun, Changan County, Shaanxi, Kaogu xuebao, 1957,:1, e.g.Pl.V1:4, p. 84. Both the excavated and Sackler green plaques are characterised by identical imagery, with the Sackler piece being the slightly more elaborate version. The Sackler piece can be clearly identified as originating at the excavated burials from Tanghu Xinzheng, Henan. An almost identical pendant of the same colour is in the Winthrop College, Fogg Art Museum, illustrated by Max Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, Massachuseetts, 1975, no. 243. See pg.51.
Materials:jade (?), nephrite (?),
Technique:carved
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Width: 5.70 centimetres
Description:
Leaf-green jade human-form pendant.
IMG
Comments:The thin, translucent plaque carved on either side with a human figure shown in profile seated with legs tightly drawn up beneath the arms and torso formed by the coiled body of a dragon, with a pendant, scrolled tail below, the head raised on a thin neck and surmounted by another dragon arched backward to form the hair and drilled through its coiled tail, the details indicated by grooves and the edges notched to conform to the outline of the design, the unusual stone of bright green colour with satiny polish, minor chips. Late Western Zhou Dynasty. Plaque decorated with human like creatures and dragons. Western Zhou period, 9th century BC. Christies: This exquisitely delicate piece of leaf-green nephrite is a spectacular example of Late Western Zhou semi-human imagery. Its exact cousin is represented by the 7.2 cm. tall plaque version l, of identical leaf green neprhite- from excavations in 1976 at Tanghu in Xinzheng County, Henan province, Wenwu ziliao, congkan: 2, 1978, figs &:5 and 65. This leaf-green colour of jade is also known by examples of similar date from Puducun, Changan County, Shaanxi, Kaogu xuebao, 1957,:1, e.g.Pl.V1:4, p. 84. Both the excavated and Sackler green plaques are characterised by identical imagery, with the Sackler piece being the slightly more elaborate version. The Sackler piece can be clearly identified as originating at the excavated burials from Tanghu Xinzheng, Henan. An almost identical pendant of the same colour is in the Winthrop College, Fogg Art Museum, illustrated by Max Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, Massachuseetts, 1975, no. 243. See pg.51.
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