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A GREEN AND BROWN JADE ‘BIRDS AND DRAGON’ CEREMONIAL BLADE, WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
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A GREEN AND BROWN JADE ‘BIRDS AND DRAGON’ CEREMONIAL BLADE, WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published: Jean-Paul Desroches (ed.) et al, The Beginning of the World. Dragons, Phoenix and Other Chimera, Fondation Baur, Geneva, 2020, p. 58, no. 29.

Exhibited:
1. Fondation Baur, The Beginning of the World – According to the Chinese. Dragons, Phoenix and Other Chimera, Geneva, 11 November 2020-23 May 2021.
2. Musée Départemental des Arts Asiatiques, The Beginning of the World – According to the Chinese. Dragons, Phoenix and Other Chimera, Nice, Summer 2021.

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. The form of this blade is reminiscent of a group of Shang and early Zhou jade handles—also described as finials, insignias, or pendants—but its size and fully carved surfaces indicate a ceremonial function, possibly as a scepter.
The presence of both bird and dragon motifs suggest a date toward the later phases of the Western Zhou period, rather than its earliest stages. Bird motifs seem to have entered the Western Zhou jade repertoire with designs of human or human-like heads, which were to disappear shortly afterwards and only the bird and dragon motifs remained.

China, 10th-9th century BC. Finely carved, the rectangular blade with one straight and one slightly flaring edge elegantly rising to the thin beveled cutting edge, opposite from the notched handle below a drilled circular aperture. The surface is intricately decorated in thread relief depicting two birds below a dragon. The semi-translucent stone is of a deep olive-green tone with cloudy inclusions, russet patches, and ivory-white calcification.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Good condition with expected wear, signs of prolonged burial and traces of weathering with few small associated losses to edges, areas of calcification, the stone with natural fissures, some of which may have developed into small hairline cracks.

Weight: 196 g
Dimensions: Length 20.9 cm

Literature comparison:
Compare a related pale green handle-shaped blade decorated with a bird, dragon, and anthropomorphic figure, dated 10th–9th century BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1985.214.96. Compare a related ivory-white jade handle or scepter decorated with birds and dragons, dated 10th–9th century BC, in the British Museum, registration number 1947,0712.496.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 19 March 2015, lot 568
Price: USD 27,500 or approx. EUR 32,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare ivory-colored opaque jade 'handle'-shaped finial or insignia, China, Early Western Zhou dynasty, circa 10th century BC
Expert remark: Compare the related manner of carving and bird motif. Note the form and size (15.2 cm).

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 2011, lot 64
Price: USD 62,500 or approx. EUR 77,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare small archaic jade plaque, Late Shang / Early Western Zhou dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the related manner of carving and bird motif. Note the form.

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