A PALE CELADON JADE POMMEL ORNAMENT

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A PALE CELADON JADE POMMEL ORNAMENT
POSSIBLY EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, (770-256BC)

Carved as a powerful striding dragon, its legs and tail extended within an enclosed wide flattened disc incised with two registers of interlocking scrolls, the stone of a translucent very pale celadon tone altered through burial
1½ in. (3.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

J.J. Lally, New York

Literature

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no.19

Exhibited

Christie's New York, March 13-26, 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

Lot Essay

Compare with a very similar pommel ornament from the collection of Mrs. Edward Sonnenschein illustrated by A. Solomony, Carved Jade of Ancient China, London, 1982, pl. XLVII, no. 7. Another from the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing is illuustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 148 no. 122.

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