A CREAMY IVORY AND RUSSET JADE SCABBARD SLIDE | Christie's

Sale 2388

Important Chinese Jades from the Personal Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman Part II

Hong Kong

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27 November 2007

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Lot 1582

A CREAMY IVORY AND RUSSET JADE SCABBARD SLIDE

Price realised

HKD 137,500

Estimate

HKD 50,000 - HKD 70,000

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A CREAMY IVORY AND RUSSET JADE SCABBARD SLIDE
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC - 8 AD)

The rectangular slide vividly carved in high relief with a dragon, its long coiling body supported and partially raised above the flat surface of the slide on muscular limbs, the feline head facing the tail of a second beast, the reverse with a large rectangular aperture for suspending the scabbard on a belt, the highly polished stone of a mottled creamy white and honey tone with darker inclusions
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) long

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Literature and exhibited

Literature

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 25

Exhibited

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003-December 2004

Lot Essay

Similar scabbard slides have been published, including one from the Grenville Winthorpe Collection now in the Fogg Art Museum illustrated by M. Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, 1975, p. 395, no. 572; and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 220, no. 183.
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