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A MINIATURE ‘CHICKEN BONE’ JADE PAGODA, TANG DYNASTY
奥地利
09月12日 下午5点 开拍 / 09月10日 下午3点 截止委托
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A MINIATURE ‘CHICKEN BONE’ JADE PAGODA, TANG DYNASTY

China, 618-907. The tapering structure with a projecting plinth base, flaring upward into sloped walls and surmounted by a hipped roof with a high, pointed finial. The roof is ridged and curves upward at the four corners. Opening through the arches to the short sides, the walls are further pierced with lobed window panels.

Provenance: Private collection, Italy, 2014. Collection of Dr. Koos de Jong, acquired from the above. A Dutch art historian and collector, Dr. Koos de Jong has worked across several cultural institutions in the Netherlands from 1976, serving as the director of the European Ceramic Work Center in Den Bosch between 1999-2009, before retiring in 2009. He has authored hundreds of articles and several books on Dutch fine and decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the modern era. His scholarly interests expanded to Chinese material culture, culminating in the 2013 publication of Dragon & Horse: Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and Beyond, a pioneering study on Chinese equestrian gear. Continuing this line of inquiry, his more recent book published in 2021, Small China: Early Chinese Miniatures, explores the largely overlooked world of Chinese miniature objects, combining archaeological research with art historical insight.
Condition: Good condition with old wear, commensurate with age. Natural imperfections including age cracks and fissures, minuscule chips and nibbling around the edges, losses to the corners, and traces of weathering and erosion.

Weight: 19 g
Dimensions: Height 4.1 cm

Chicken bone is a term for a rare and highly coveted nephrite jade of an opaque creamy beige color, often with extensive dark veining, which was particularly valued between the later Ming and early Qing dynasties. It is also sometimes said to be ‘burnt jade’, which has an opaque chalky appearance, usually with minute cracks all over the surface. It is known that nephrite – when heated to about 1000 degrees Celsius in a dry atmosphere – breaks down into diopside, enstatite (a magnesium silicate) and some quartz. In an experiment in the Freer Gallery Laboratory, samples of blue-green and white nephrite were submitted to temperatures up to 1025 degrees Celsius, and both altered to an opaque chalky beige color with no change in the shape of the piece or the decoration of the surface. The chief mineral which resulted was diopside, and several nephrite jades in the Freer which appear to have been burnt also give a diopside x-ray diffraction pattern. Jadeite, when heated in a similar manner, behaves quite differently: it fuses to a glassy material, the surface smoothens out, and if the object is small enough, it bends out of shape. See Elisabeth West, Jade: Its Character and Occurrence, The Bulletin of the University Museum of Pennsylvania, Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 1963, page 5.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related, earlier earthenware pagoda, dated to the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), 14 cm high, in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, accession number S2012.9.3315.

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