Period:Warring States period Production date:5thC BC – 2ndC BC
Materials:jade
Technique:incised, pierced,
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 2.70 centimetres Width: 5.70 centimetres
Description:
Bird plaque of white translucent jade with grey and light brown mottling with a glossy finish.
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![图片[1]-plaque BM-2022-3034.146-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Warring States period/Jades/68_.jpg)
Comments:The bird is finely incised and pierced representing a bird in profile with open beak, high crest feathers, long elaborate flowing tail feathers and outstretched wings with taloned feet. One of the tail feathers broken at the tip. Both sides are similarly decorated. Late Eastern Zhou. See Loo 1950. In parallel with the s-shaped dragons here an s-shaped form is given to a bird. Its reverted head, long body and bifurcated tail makes the s. This simple shape is disguised by a wing, part of which raised above the body and part of which crosses over the body in the form of deep incisions representing feathers. There is a single claw at the front pierced with a hole. Fine incised lines demarcate the bird’s eye and paired curved lines suggest feathers. The rhythmical arrangement of feathers and plumes criss-crossing each other creates a very complex ornament. The fine quality of the carving and the elegant shape of the jade are similar to those of pieces said to have been found at the site of Jincun near Luoyang. The Jincun pieces are characterised by their sinuous, openwork carving embellished with fine incised lines, and most of the pieces depict felines and dragons. There are very few birds, and indeed birds are something of a rarity altogether among jade pendants. The birds may have been developed from the griffin-like creatures that occur on a number of jades. See Rawson 1995, p.273, cat.no.17.16.
Materials:jade
Technique:incised, pierced,
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 2.70 centimetres Width: 5.70 centimetres
Description:
Bird plaque of white translucent jade with grey and light brown mottling with a glossy finish.
IMG
Comments:The bird is finely incised and pierced representing a bird in profile with open beak, high crest feathers, long elaborate flowing tail feathers and outstretched wings with taloned feet. One of the tail feathers broken at the tip. Both sides are similarly decorated. Late Eastern Zhou. See Loo 1950. In parallel with the s-shaped dragons here an s-shaped form is given to a bird. Its reverted head, long body and bifurcated tail makes the s. This simple shape is disguised by a wing, part of which raised above the body and part of which crosses over the body in the form of deep incisions representing feathers. There is a single claw at the front pierced with a hole. Fine incised lines demarcate the bird’s eye and paired curved lines suggest feathers. The rhythmical arrangement of feathers and plumes criss-crossing each other creates a very complex ornament. The fine quality of the carving and the elegant shape of the jade are similar to those of pieces said to have been found at the site of Jincun near Luoyang. The Jincun pieces are characterised by their sinuous, openwork carving embellished with fine incised lines, and most of the pieces depict felines and dragons. There are very few birds, and indeed birds are something of a rarity altogether among jade pendants. The birds may have been developed from the griffin-like creatures that occur on a number of jades. See Rawson 1995, p.273, cat.no.17.16.
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