LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY BC

Details

A JADE DRAGON-FORM XI PENDANT
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY BC
3 5⁄8 in. (9.2 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Gisèle Croës, Brussels, 7 June 1993
The Dongxi Studio Collection

Literature

Gisèle Croës, European Fine Art Fair Catalogue, Maastricht, 1993, pp. 4-5
Nicole De Bisscop, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Brussels, 1995, pg. 50, no. 21
Filippo Salviati, "The Dongxi Collection of Chinese Jade", Orientations, November 1995, p. 40, fig. 6

Exhibited

Gisèle Croës, European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, 13-21 March 1993
Kredietbank Gallery, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Brussels, 25 October - 17 December 1995; Kredietbank Luxembourg, 1 February - 13 April 1996, no. 21

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Lot Essay

Xi pendants of this type evolved from simpler curved pendants fashioned after a tusk or claw shape. By the Warring States period they had a more decorative appearance and were hung from a belt, and used to open knots. A similar xi pendant in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is illustrated in Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern, Vermont/Japan, 1977, pl. XI (a), no. 134, pp. 117-118, where it is described as a xi tiger pendant. The pendant has similar incised decoration, and is illustrated with two other xi pendants of this type, nos. 135 and 136 (fig. 1). All three are comparable to similar examples found at Jincun, and dated late Eastern Zhou.

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