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A RARE AND LARGE CHINESE JADE DRAGON FORMED PENDANT, SHANG DYNASTY (1600-1650 B.C.)
The neatly rendered Chen (臣) shaped eye, the upturned and hooked nose tip, the treatment of the teeth between the upper and lower jaws, the flanges along the back, the backward-curving tail, as well as the incised hook-and-sickle motifs and the carving of pseudo-yang lines on the body, all indicate that this dragon-shaped jade pendant is a characteristic example of late Shang dynasty craftsmanship. With a fitted box.
Compare with a much smaller coiled dragon pendant (4 cm) from the same period, sold at Christie's New York, 18 March 2009, lot 282. Other smaller related examples, excavated from the tomb of Fu Hao at Anyang, Henan province, are published in Yinxu Yuqi (The Jades from Yinxu), 1982, pl. 2, nos. 600 and 469. Another example, formerly in the McKim Collection, is illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, p. 211, no. 12:4. See also a closely related pendant published by Wu Hung and Brian Morgan in Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, Bluett & Sons, London, 1990, no. 15.
商 白玉雕龍紋珮
眼部呈辰形，鼻端上翹並鉤形，上下顎間牙齒刻劃清晰，背部有脊棱，尾部向後彎曲，身上刻有鉤鐮紋與仿陽紋，具典型晚商玉雕風格。配盒
類似小型盤龍珮（4公分）見：2009年3月18日紐約佳士得拍賣，第282號；另見安陽婦好墓出土之相關器例，刊於《殷墟玉器》，1982年，圖版2，編號600與469。
源流：
W.Y. Thomas Kwok 遺藏，1980年代初購於香港
11cm diameter
Sold for $8,500
Lot 187
The neatly rendered Chen (臣) shaped eye, the upturned and hooked nose tip, the treatment of the teeth between the upper and lower jaws, the flanges along the back, the backward-curving tail, as well as the incised hook-and-sickle motifs and the carving of pseudo-yang lines on the body, all indicate that this dragon-shaped jade pendant is a characteristic example of late Shang dynasty craftsmanship. With a fitted box.
Compare with a much smaller coiled dragon pendant (4 cm) from the same period, sold at Christie's New York, 18 March 2009, lot 282. Other smaller related examples, excavated from the tomb of Fu Hao at Anyang, Henan province, are published in Yinxu Yuqi (The Jades from Yinxu), 1982, pl. 2, nos. 600 and 469. Another example, formerly in the McKim Collection, is illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, p. 211, no. 12:4. See also a closely related pendant published by Wu Hung and Brian Morgan in Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, Bluett & Sons, London, 1990, no. 15.
商 白玉雕龍紋珮
眼部呈辰形，鼻端上翹並鉤形，上下顎間牙齒刻劃清晰，背部有脊棱，尾部向後彎曲，身上刻有鉤鐮紋與仿陽紋，具典型晚商玉雕風格。配盒
類似小型盤龍珮（4公分）見：2009年3月18日紐約佳士得拍賣，第282號；另見安陽婦好墓出土之相關器例，刊於《殷墟玉器》，1982年，圖版2，編號600與469。
源流：
W.Y. Thomas Kwok 遺藏，1980年代初購於香港
11cm diameter
Estimate $10,000 - $20,000
Overall in good condition.
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