HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

Details

A WHITE JADE 'CHILONG' SCABBARD SLIDE
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
4 7⁄16 in. (11.3 cm.) long

Provenance

C. T. Loo, Inc., New York, before 1942.
Frank Caro Co., New York, 8 October 1970.

Literature

C. T. Loo & Co., Exhibition of Chinese Arts, New York, 1941, no. 242.
C. T. Loo, Inc., An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, New York, 1950, pl. LVIII, no. 1.

Exhibited

New York, C. T. Loo & Co., Exhibition of Chinese Arts, 1 November 1941 – 30 April 1942.
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art, An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades, 20 January-1 March 1950.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

For other Han jade scabbard slides carved in high relief with two dragons, the larger dragon striding towards a smaller beaked dragon, see the slide sold in Adorning the Kings – A Private Collection of Archaic Jade Ornaments; Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2017, lot 2705; the slide included in the J. J. Lally & Co. exhibition catalogue, Ancient Chinese Jade From the Neolithic to the Han, New York, 2016, no. 67; and the example in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1985.214.101, Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation.

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