EARLY JADE CARVINGS PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. MALCOLM E. MCPHERSON

TWO EARLY GREYISH-GREEN JADE PENDANTS

SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

細節

TWO EARLY GREYISH-GREEN JADE PENDANTS
SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
One carved as a crouching tiger and the other as a recumbent buffalo, the features of both delineated by thin grooved lines, both flat, rather thick plaques pierced through the mouth, the stone of both of greyish-green tone with opaque alteration of buff color, the buffalo pendant with traces of cinnabar
1 7/8 and 1½ in. (4.7 and 3.8 cm.) long, two boxes (2)

來源

J.D. Chen King Kwei Collection.
Mayuyama, Tokyo, late 1950s.

出版

Tiger pendant: S. Umehara, Yin Hsu, Asahi Shinbunsha, Tokyo, 1964, pl. CXLI.

展覽

San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Hall of Flowers, Treasures of the Orient, Society for Asian Art, 1979, no. 13.

拍品專文

Compare the tiger pendant dated late Shang or early Western Zhou dynasty shown in a similar crouching posture, but with a long tail coiling backwards, illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995, p. 214, no. 12:8.

Compare, also, the two jade pendants of recumbent water buffalos dated to the Shang dynasty illustrated by A. Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenshein Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1952, pl. XX, nos. 6 and 7.