A JADEITE PENDANT, YUPEI

细节
A JADEITE PENDANT, YUPEI
QING DYNASTY, PROBABLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The glassy stone suffused with veins of brilliant green, well carved on both sides as a bell decorated with a low relief bixie, surmounted by a large archaistic dragon, smaller dragons flanking each side, the base with a double bat and cloud detail
2 1/8in. (5.5cm.) long

拍品专文

A very similar pendant, probably carved in the same workshop, and of similar material, is in the National Palace Museum, Beijing (illustrated no.287, p.124, Jewellery and accessories of The Royal Consorts of the Ching Dynasty). The museum's pendant is shorter and is decorated with low relief leiwen and motifs of tigers and monkeys rather than bixie and dragons.