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AN EXCEPTIONAL JADE FAN HANDLE, WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
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AN EXCEPTIONAL JADE FAN HANDLE, WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published:
1. Myrna Myers (ed.) & Filippo Salviati (auth.), The Language of Adornment. Chinese Ornaments of Jade, Crystal, Amber and Glass, Paris, 2002, no. 56.
2. Jean-Paul Desroches (ed.) et al, Two Americans in Paris. A Quest for Asian Art, Paris, 2016, p. 81, no. 175.

Exhibited:
1. Pointe-à-Callière Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Montréal, 17th November 2016-19th March 2017.
2. Kimbell Art Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Fort Worth, Texas, 4th March-19th August 2018.

China, 206 BC-8 AD. Carved in openwork as a fan handle with the motif of a bird rising from a gently scrolling stem. The lower section of the handle is decorated with incised curvilinear cloud motifs and incorporates a slit with two perforations, that once held a fan made of bamboo or other perishable material. The near opaque, mottled stone with varying hues of green, yellow, and brown with russet inclusions and areas of creamy calcification.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Good condition with wear, traces of weathering and signs of prolonged burial, nibbling to the edges, few small chips, soil encrustation, and an obvious loss to one end of the handle, as well as natural fissures, some of which have developed into hairline cracks.

Weight: 35 g
Dimensions: Length 15.3 cm

In his book ‘The Language of Adornment’ Filippo Salviati writes: a piece comparable in iconography, workmanship and dimensions (19.2 cm in length) was found in the tomb of Prince Liu Sheng at Mancheng, Hebei province, a site famous for the jade shrouds of the prince and his consort, Dou Wan. The fact that a fan handle was disorvered in the tomb of Prince Liu Sheng and not in that of his consort is an indication that it was not considered exclusively a feminine accessory. […] The fan handle from Liu Sheng’s tomb and the one presented here might have held fans which served as symbols of status, as the use of jade would imply, or as ritual objects associated with Taoist practices. The fan was a traditional attribute in the iconography of Taoist divinities, especially of the deified Laozi. The bird decor on the handle might be related to the Chinese name for fan, shan, a character composed of one part indicating the shutter of a door and another the wings of a bird. The components of the character are mirrored in the actual shape of the fan: the shutter was the rigid part of the fan which, when waved, recalled the movement of a bird’s wings.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 December 2023, lot 5640
Price: HKD 203,200 or approx. EUR 23,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A celadon jade 'dragon' fan handle, Ming dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the related stone, usage and size (16 cm). Note the later date to Ming dynasty and that the lot also comprises a box pendant.

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