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Lot Essay
One previously sold in our London Rooms, 11 December 1989, lot 188; and a similar example sold in London, 11 June 1991, lot 15.
These pendants can be compared to gold parfumiers of similar shape and decoration, such as the one from the tomb of Lu Shimeng at Wuxian, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum illustrated in Nanjing Bowuyuan, pl. 120. Two further examples are published, the first included in the exhibition, Adornment for Eternity, Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver Art Museum, October 15 1994-September 3 1995, and illustrated by Julia White and Emma Bunker in the Catalogue, pl. 186, no. 98; and the other with a double-dragon design, excavated at the Xixiao kiln-site, Xuancheng County, Anhui province in 1958, illustrated in Gems of China's Cultural Relics, Beijing, 1993, no. 123.
These pendants can be compared to gold parfumiers of similar shape and decoration, such as the one from the tomb of Lu Shimeng at Wuxian, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum illustrated in Nanjing Bowuyuan, pl. 120. Two further examples are published, the first included in the exhibition, Adornment for Eternity, Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver Art Museum, October 15 1994-September 3 1995, and illustrated by Julia White and Emma Bunker in the Catalogue, pl. 186, no. 98; and the other with a double-dragon design, excavated at the Xixiao kiln-site, Xuancheng County, Anhui province in 1958, illustrated in Gems of China's Cultural Relics, Beijing, 1993, no. 123.