Lot Essay
Compare a very similar yellowish-green jade bird-form pendant excavated at Baling yonqi, Inner Mongolia, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu Quanji, vol. 9, no. 8
ARCHAIC JADES
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A SMALL YELLOWISH-GREEN JADE BIRD-FORM PENDANT
Details
A SMALL YELLOWISH-GREEN JADE BIRD-FORM PENDANT
NEOLITHIC, HONGSHAN CULTURE, 3RD MILLENIUM B.C.
Carved as if perched, with head facing forward, wings held close to the sides and carved with a vertical rib, the feet indicated by a slightly convex bar with incised lines above the flared, bifurcated tail, the plain, flat back with a biconical perforation, the stone softly polished and with some opaque calcification--1 1/4 in. (3cm.) long
NEOLITHIC, HONGSHAN CULTURE, 3RD MILLENIUM B.C.
Carved as if perched, with head facing forward, wings held close to the sides and carved with a vertical rib, the feet indicated by a slightly convex bar with incised lines above the flared, bifurcated tail, the plain, flat back with a biconical perforation, the stone softly polished and with some opaque calcification--1 1/4 in. (3cm.) long