A DARK CELADON JADE PARROT-FORM PENDANT

SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC

Details

A DARK CELADON JADE PARROT-FORM PENDANT
SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
The jade is carved as a flattened parrot with a high crest shown in profile. Both sides are incised with double-line details. There is a tiny hole pierced through the top of the pendant, and a short trapezoidal blade on the opposite end. The stone is of a dark celadon tone with areas of beige-russet alteration.
3 1/8 in. (7.8 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Chicago in 1993

Lot Essay

Compare to a very similar but slightly larger jade parrot-form pendant (11.2 cm. high) without the short blade excavated from the tomb of the Shang queen Fu Hao at Yinxu, Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in The Jades from Yinxu, Beijing, 1981, no 47 (352).

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