A MINIATURE OLIVE-GREEN SERPENTINE DAGGER PENDANT

细节

A MINIATURE OLIVE-GREEN SERPENTINE DAGGER PENDANT
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

Each side carved with a pronounced median ridge running the length of the dagger from the end of the tang to the tip of the blade, as does the beveling of the edges, with a small perforation drilled through the tang from both sides, the semi-translucent stone of dark olive-green color suffused with opaque buff and darker mottling--3½in. (8.9cm.) long

拍品专文

Daggers of this type are miniature versions of the larger daggers of the period. Other miniature daggers are in the Sonnenschein Collection, Alfred Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades, Art Institute of Chicago, 1952, pl. XI:1; and in the Winthrop Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Max Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975, nos. 63-65, no. 63 being the closest in shape and style of carving