A SMALL WHITE JADE ‘COMPASS’ PENDANT
A SMALL WHITE JADE ‘COMPASS’ PENDANT
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A SMALL WHITE JADE ‘COMPASS’ PENDANT

EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)

细节
1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm.) high, box
来源
Dexinshuwu Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1991

荣誉呈献

Liang-Lin Chen (陳良玲)
Liang-Lin Chen (陳良玲) VP, Senior Specialist Head of Sale

拍品专文

This very rare carving is known as a sinan pei, or ‘compass pendant’, shaped after an ancient Chinese compass with a metal spoon on a plate known as sinan. A very similarly shaped white jade pendant was unearthed from an Eastern Han tomb in Hanjiang Ganquan in Yangzhou city, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China- 7 – Jiangsu, Shanghai, Beijing, 2005, p. 153 (fig. 1).

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