A JADE FISH-FORM PENDANT

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, C. 1100 – 771 BC

Details

A JADE FISH-FORM PENDANT
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, C. 1100 – 771 BC
The thin and flat arched pendant is carved on both sides as a fish shown in profile with incised circular eyes and fins filled with parallel diagonal lines. There is a tiny hole drilled on one end below the head. The jade has a mottled russet tone with areas of white opaque alteration.
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) wide, box

Provenance

Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1988

Lot Essay

The present pendant is nearly identical in shape and incised details to a slightly larger Western Zhou jade ‘fish’ pendant (11 cm. wide) in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji – 2 – Shang, Xi Zhou, Hebei, 1993, p. 185, no. 258.

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