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A RARE BROWN JADE ‘ANIMAL MASK’ HARVESTING KNIFE, HU, SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD
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09月11日 下午5点 开拍
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A RARE BROWN JADE ‘ANIMAL MASK’ HARVESTING KNIFE, HU, SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Expert’s note:
Blades with carved decoration, such as the thread relief seen on the present lot, are exceptionally rare. The vast majority of comparable implements from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age feature plain surfaces, sometimes with one or more drilled holes, and only infrequently show incision work that is usually minimal in extent. A closely related harvesting knife (hu) in the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C. (see literature comparison) is described on their website as “reworked”, but the listing doesn’t go into detail regarding the period or extent. The possibility that this blade (and by extension also the present lot) was originally carved during the Neolithic period and subsequently embellished with its distinctive decoration in the Spring and Autumn period, also appears to be a possibility to this author.

China, 771-256 BC. Of rectangular form with notched edges on three sides, one of which is slanted. The blade is pierced with one large hole and five smaller ones. The surfaces of the three notched sides are intricately decorated in low relief, depicting a taotie buffalo among c-scrolls and dragons. Some of these are further incised with neat double grooves. The semi-translucent stone is of deep brown hues with cloudy inclusions that display a yellow tone when viewed through the stone.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, traces of weathering and signs of prolonged burial, minuscule nibbling, the stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into thin hairline cracks.

Weight: 345 g
Dimensions: Length 25 cm

From the end of the Eastern Zhou period to the Han dynasty, the scale and quality of jade production reached an unprecedented level. Many historians and connoisseurs regard it as China's first high point in the development and art of jade. Carvings from this period typically possess a combination of intricacy in detail and boldness of design, enabled greatly by technological improvements with bronze implements and tools. Stylistically, designs and compositions often included long sinuous creatures, animal masks with ornate surface decoration of linked scrolls.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related jade harvesting knife (hu) with interlaced dragons and birds, dated to the Spring and Autumn period, in the National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number F1968.38. Compare a related jade ornament, 12.1 cm long, dated to the late Spring and Autumn period, excavated from the tomb of Minister Zhou of State Jin at Jinshengcun, Tauyuan, Shanxi, now in the Shanxi Provincial Museum, illustrated by Gu Fang, The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed from China, vol. 3, Shanxi, no. 174.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2020, lot 68
Estimate: HKD 240,000 or approx. EUR 28,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A jade arc-shaped 'animal mask' ornament, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period
Expert remark: Compare the related manner of carving with similar animal mask. Note the different form and much smaller size (6.3 cm).

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