Lot 126
126
A RARE SMALL OPAQUE WHITE GLASS CICADA

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A RARE SMALL OPAQUE WHITE GLASS CICADA
HAN DYNASTY

The plaque carved in imitation of a jade cicada with beveling and grooves to delineate the body, the plain underside with rust encrustation in a partial circle around a square center stained turquoise, as is much of the the top, with some cuprite encrustation
2 1/16in. (5.2cm.) long, box

Lot Essay

Although of slightly different shape, other glass cicadas of Han date are illustrated in the Min Chin Society Thirtieth Anniversary exhibition Catalogue, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, November 30, 1990-February 10, 1991, no. 221; by Henry Trubner in the exhibition Catalogue, Arts of the Han Dynasty, Asia House, New York, February-March, 1961, no. 81; and by Martin Fedderson, Chinesisches Kunstgewerke, Berlin, 1939, fig. 152