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A CHICKEN BONE JADE ‘DRAGON’ BELT PLAQUE, YUAN TO MING DYNASTY
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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A CHICKEN BONE JADE ‘DRAGON’ BELT PLAQUE, YUAN TO MING DYNASTY

China, 14th-16th century. Of rectangular form, carved in relief with two confronted sinuous four-clawed dragons above a mountain emerging from crashing waves, the beasts’ claws pierced, the stone of mottled creamy-brown tone with patches of russet and black. The back pierced with apertures to each corner.

Provenance: English trade. A European private collection, acquired from the above.
Condition: Good condition with some old wear as expected and natural imperfections. Tiny nicks, light scratches, traces of weathering and erosion, and some nibbling around the edges. The jade with natural fissures, some of which may have developed into small hairline cracks.

Weight: 72.6 g
Dimensions: Size 7.7 cm x 5.2 cm

Chicken bone is a term for a rare and highly coveted nephrite jade of an opaque creamy beige color, often with extensive dark veining, which was particularly valued between the later Ming and early Qing dynasties. It is also sometimes said to be ‘burnt jade’, which has an opaque chalky appearance, usually with minute cracks all over the surface. It is known that nephrite – when heated to about 1000 degrees Celsius in a dry atmosphere – breaks down into diopside, enstatite (a magnesium silicate) and some quartz. In an experiment in the Freer Gallery Laboratory, samples of blue-green and white nephrite were submitted to temperatures up to 1025 degrees Celsius, and both altered to an opaque chalky beige color with no change in the shape of the piece or the decoration of the surface. The chief mineral which resulted was diopside, and several nephrite jades in the Freer which appear to have been burnt also give a diopside x-ray diffraction pattern. Jadeite, when heated in a similar manner, behaves quite differently: it fuses to a glassy material, the surface smoothens out, and if the object is small enough, it bends out of shape. See Elisabeth West, Jade: Its Character and Occurrence, The Bulletin of the University Museum of Pennsylvania, Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 1963, page 5.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related jade waistband plaque with dragon pattern, mid to late Ming dynasty, image number B1C000381N000000000PAB. Compare a closely related jade plaque with a dragon, Ming dynasty, 15th-17th century, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, exhibited by the Musée Guimet, Jade, des empereurs à l'Art Déco, Paris, 19 October 2016-16 January 2017. Compare a closely related jade plaque, pierced with similar apertures to the back, dated to the Ming dynasty, 7.1 x 5.7 cm, illustrated by Jiming Yu, in An Illustrated Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jadewares: Jadewares of Yuan and Ming Dynasties, 2002, no. 7.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Bonhams California, 24 June 2013, lot 1073
Price: USD 7,500 or approx. EUR 9,300 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Two carved jade belt plaques, Ming dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form and manner of carving. Note the size (6.7 x 9.9 cm) and that the lot also includes a second smaller plaque.

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