A RARE GREENISH-WHITE JADE HANDLE

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-9TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE GREENISH-WHITE JADE HANDLE
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-9TH CENTURY BC
Of slightly tapering rectangular form, carved in low relief with five rows of stylized cicada wings that continue around the narrow sides between double bow-string borders repeated around the slightly waisted and tapered end, the other end also tapered and plain, the semi-translucent stone with areas of opaque buff alteration
6 in. (15.3 cm.) long

Provenance

Desmond Gure Collection, 1968.

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Lot Essay

A similar jade handle carved with three registers of wings between bow-string borders, dated Western Zhou, from the collection of Professor Klaus J. Müller was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Chinese Jade throughout the ages, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, no. 9. Two related handles excavated from Western Zhou tombs at Liuliho, Fangshan county, are illustrated in Kaogu, 1974:5, p. 318, pls. 16 and 17.

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