A RARE PALE YELLOW JADE FINIAL

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A RARE PALE YELLOW JADE FINIAL
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

Carved in the round as a seated bird, its long neck rising to a delicately carved head with small beak and protruding eyes, the head turned slightly to the right, the body detailed with overlapping plumage culminating in an elongated tail, the figure pierecd with two apertures at the chest, the stone of pale yellow tone with brown markings at the chest and head
2 in. (5.1 cm.) long, stand

来源

T.B. Walker Foundation, sold at Sotheby's New York, 29 November 1988, lot 16

出版

Walker Foundation, Catalogue, pl. IV, no. 4
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 8

展览

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

拍品专文

Cf. a very similar figure of a bird with comparable treatment of the tiered feathers in the Arthur Sackler Collection, Washington D.C., Catalogue, p. 96, no. 52; and another in the Fogg Art Museum, illustrated by M. Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, 1975, p. 188, no. 247.
Compare also a bird-shaped pendant in the Capital Museum, Beijing which is attributed to the Shang dyansty, again similarly carved with tiered feathers and elongated tail, illustrated in Gems of Cultural Relics Series, Jades, Beijing, 2002, p. 50, no. 18.