A SMALL GREY AND BUFF JADE FIGURAL PENDANT

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

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A SMALL GREY AND BUFF JADE FIGURAL PENDANT
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
The pendant is carved as a standing figure wearing a long, wide-sleeved robe and a hat, and is pierced on each side through the waist. The now opaque jade is of grey and buff color.
1 3/8 in. (3.6 cm.) high

Provenance

J. T. Tai & Co., New York, 1964.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.

Lot Essay

Compare the similarly rendered jade figure of a man dated to the Han dynasty, 2nd-1st century BC and of comparable small size (3.9 cm.) illustrated by Jessica Rawson in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 285, fig. 19:7.

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