LATE WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 1st CENTURY BC

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A LARGE WHITE JADE RETICULATED ‘PHOENIX’ PLAQUE
LATE WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 1^st CENTURY BC
The archer’s ring-form pendant is pierced with a roundel enclosing a phoenix in the centre, the top and bottom with two further pairs of abstract phoenix.
5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Hong Kong in 1996

Literature

Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, no. 225

Exhibited

Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, The National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 225

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Lot Essay

This large plaque is carved with an archer’s ring-form pendant in the centre, flanked by abstract phoenixes on the top and bottom, resulting in a horizontal shape resembling a huang. Two jade plaques of similar huang-shape but of less complex design, dating to the late Western Han dynasty, were unearthed in a tomb in Ganquan, Yangzhou city, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 4, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pls. 198 and 199.

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