WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC

Compare the similarly elongated Shang-early Western Zhou jade fish pendants, but of slightly larger size (13.5 and 13.2 cm.) from the Falk Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 16 October 2001, lot 201. See, also, the pair of jade fish with similarly carved details, but smaller in size (9.8 and 9.7 cm.), illustrated by Jenny F. So in Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019, pp. 258-59, no. 37A, where they are dated Western Zhou period, 1000-800 BC or earlier.