EARLY TO MID-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

Details

A VERY RARE JADE RETICULATED ‘PHOENIX’ ARCHER’S RING
EARLY TO MID-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC
The thumb ring-form pendant is surmounted by a reticulated phoenix grasping a small snake in its beak, the pendant incised with scrolling motifs.
2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1996

Literature

Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, no. 223

Exhibited

Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, The National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 223

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Lot Essay

This pendant is delicately carved with a phoenix grasping a worm or a snake. Such motif can also be found on a jade carving unearthed from a Han dynasty tomb in Mancheng, Hebei province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 4, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 95.

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