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† A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE DRAGON PENDANT, WARRING STATES PERIOD
奥地利
06月27日 下午5点 开拍
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? A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE DRAGON PENDANT, WARRING STATES PERIOD

Expert authentication: Dr. Gu Fang has examined the present lot and confirms its authenticity and the dating above, noting the style of cutting, workmanship, thickness and quality of stone with decomposed areas indicating burial all suggest a dating to 475-221 BC. He assessed it as a piece of notably good quality. A signed copy of Dr. Gu's expertise, dated 1 February 2022, accompanies this lot.
Dr. Gu Fang (born 1962) is an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese art and a leading authority on jades. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the prestigious Beijing University in 1986 and later studied at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he now serves as a Senior Fellow specializing in archaeological excavations and Chinese jade research. A former visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he has authored several books on Chinese jades, including the 15-volume The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China (2007), one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, as well as Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China (2012).

China, 475-221 BC. Of elegantly curved, flattened form, finely carved and pierced as a horned dragon, its sinuously coiled body neatly decorated with raised comma-spirals, the tip of its tail and the elongated snout curling upwards, the mouth agape forming an aperture for suspension. The translucent stone of a white tone with pale brown shadings and extensive russet veining with small patches of opaque black.

Provenance: From a private collection in New York.
Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, signs of weathering and erosion, minor calcification, nibbling to edges, the stone with natural fissures.

Weight: 24.4 g
Dimensions: Length 5.9 cm

Jade, known as the ‘Stone of Heaven’, represents wisdom, beauty, courage, and perfection. This combined with the powerful iconography of the dragon, creates a strong symbol of luck and good fortune. Jades in this form have a long tradition of being used as ritualistic objects, in particular tokens of rank and symbolic aids for the celestial journey thought to be undertaken by the dead. In the Zhou dynasty, the number of ritualistic jades increased significantly in burial sites, as multiple plaques, pendants, and beads were draped over the face and body of the deceased.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related jade dragon pendant dated to the Warring States period, 5th-4th century BC, 8.8 cm long, in the Harvard Art Museums, object number 1943.50.445.B. Compare a related Warring States jade pendant in the form of a dragon with raised curls, 12.3 cm long, in the National Museum of Asian Art, accession number F1917.376. Compare a related Warring States jade dragon pendant, 13.2 cm long, in the permanent collection of the Shanghai Museum.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2017, lot 2719
Price: HKD 1,860,000 or approx. EUR 246,000 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing)
Description: A white jade dragon-form pendant, Warring States period
Expert remark: Compare the related subject, manner of carving, and decoration with similar comma spirals. Note the different size (13 cm).



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