THREE SMALL GREENISH-GREY JADE ANIMAL CARVINGS

LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1200-1000 BC

細節

商晚期/西周早期動物形玉雕三件
約公元前1200至1000年

來源

Hare's head: A.W. Bahr Collection, Weybridge, 1963.
Crouching animal: Chang Nai-chi Collection.
J.T. Tai & Co., New York, prior to 1966.
Buffalo: J.T. Tai & Co., New York, prior to 1966.

展覽

Hare's head: Sculptural Jades of China, Asia House Gallery, New York, 13 April - 11 June 1972, no. 2.
Crouching animal: Archaic Chinese Jades, The University Museum, Philadelphia, February 1940, pl. XV, no. 290.

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拍品專文

The very rare head of a hare is stylistically similar to the head of an entire figure of a hare (2 inches long) in the Norton Museum of Art, illustrated by J. Finlay, The Chinese Collection: Selected Works from the Norton Musuem of Art, 2003, pp. 126-7, no. 36. It is noted that "rabbits of this type appear to be a Western Zhou innovation, and examples have been found in Western Zhou tombs at Baoji, in Shaanxi province". See Baoji Yu guo mudi, vol. 2, col. pl. 28 (4), and pl. 185 (4,5). The fragment of the ox is similar to a figure excavated from Western Zhou Tomb No. 63, Marquis of Jin necropolis, Quwo, Shanxi province, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China - 3 - Shanxi, Beijing, 2005, p. 120.