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A SUPERB CELADON JADE ‘HUMAN-DRAGON’ PENDANT, MID-LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
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A SUPERB CELADON JADE ‘HUMAN-DRAGON’ PENDANT, MID-LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published: Jean-Paul Desroches (ed.) et al, Two Americans in Paris. A Quest for Asian Art, Paris, 2016, p. 57, no. 114.

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, 10th-9th century BC. Of flattened form, skillfully rendered in openwork as three stylized horned dragons surmounted by two humanoid heads, the coiling bodies of the beasts exquisitely picked out with scrollwork echoing the outlines of the pendant, and with apertures for suspension. The stone is of a pale celadon color with creamy-white inclusions.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Very good condition with expected wear, signs of prolonged burial, traces of weathering, areas of calcification, encrustations, remnants of ancient cinnabar, and few minuscule nibbles. The stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into thin hairline cracks.

Weight: 26.7 g
Dimensions: Height 8.5 cm

The late Shang dynasty period saw a revolutionary change in aesthetic style in ritual bronzes and jades. Among the novelties were jade plaques decorated with humanoid motifs, such as a pendant in the form of a crowned human with bent limbs unearthed from the tomb of Fu Hao (c. 1200 BC), included in the exhibition Queen, Mother, General: 40th Anniversary of Excavating the Shang Tomb of Fu Hao, Beijing, 2016, p. 7 (1976AXTM5:470). The present pendant, reminiscent of the Shang prototypes, ingeniously incorporates two human heads and two dragons on the upper section, atop curled-up human legs terminating in claws and a further dragon with a coiled tail. In the Western Zhou dynasty, this type of plaque probably formed parts of ritual necklace sets; see an elaborate set with a related plaque excavated from Qiangjiacun, Fufeng, Shaanxi, exhibited in The Cultural Grandeur of the Western Zhou Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, cat. no. 119. Although a variety of human-dragon plaques can be found in public collections across China, few are in private hands and comparatively larger examples such as the present piece are even rarer.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Near identical
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 22 April 2021, lot 1
Price: HKD 201,600 or approx. EUR 24,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare jade 'human-dragon' pendant, Western Zhou dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the form, manner of carving, incised details, and stone. Note the similar size (9.5 cm).

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