Lot 1031
1031
A VERY RARE SMALL YELLOW JADE CARVING OF A YOUNG PHOENIX
A VERY RARE SMALL YELLOW JADE CARVING OF A YOUNG PHOENIX
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A VERY RARE SMALL YELLOW JADE CARVING OF A YOUNG PHOENIX

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1050-950 BC

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A VERY RARE SMALL YELLOW JADE CARVING OF A YOUNG PHOENIX
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 1050-950 BC
1 in. (2.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 2 April 1992
Literature
Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 171, no. 94
Exhibited
The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999

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Compare the present carving with an early Western Zhou jade bird in the Jiyang County Museum, Shandong Province, which is similar in size but with much less incised details, see Zhongguo yuqi quanji-2-Shang, Zhou, Hebei, 1993, no. 252 (fig.1).

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