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A RARE CELADON AND BROWN JADE 'DRAGON' PENDANT, HAN DYNASTY
奥地利
2025年10月16日 开拍
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Expert authentication: Dr. Gu Fang has examined the present lot and confirms its authenticity and the dating above, noting the style of cutting, workmanship, thickness and quality of stone with decomposed areas indicating burial all suggest a dating to 206 BC - 220 CE. He assessed it as a piece of notably good quality. A signed copy of Dr. Gu's expertise, dated 31 August 2021, accompanies this lot. Dr. Gu Fang (born 1962) is an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese art and a leading authority on jades. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the prestigious Beijing University in 1986 and later studied at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he now serves as a Senior Fellow specializing in archaeological excavations and Chinese jade research. A former visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he has authored several books on Chinese jades, including the 15-volume The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China (2007), one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, as well as Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China (2012).China, 206 BC-220 AD. Superbly carved, the S-shaped pendant of traditional angular shape balanced by soft, curvilinear wisps and scrolls to depict a sinuous dragon, decorated on either side with interlocked T-scrolls with raised bosses, as well as incised striations to denote whiskers and facial hair. The semi-translucent stone of pale celadon hue with patches of dark brown as well as dark inclusions and opaque cream-white calcification. Provenance: From a private collection in New York, United States.Condition: Excellent condition with wear and natural imperfections. Signs of prolonged burial and traces of weathering. The stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into small hairline cracks.Weight: 105.1 g Dimensions: Height 15.7 cmThe popularity of ornamental jade pendants during the Han dynasty represents a revitalization of jade craft that had advanced considerably during the Warring States, but that had declined during the Qin and early Han periods.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related jade dragon pendant, Western Han dynasty, dated to the 2nd century BC, 18 cm high, excavated at Shizishan in 1994-1995, now in the Xuzhou Museum, Jiangsu, and illustrated by A.R. Miller in Jade, Imperial Identity, and Sumptuary Reform, Jia Yi's Xin Shu, Dao 15, (2016), p. 118, fig. 3. Compare a closely related jade dragon pendant included in a special exhibition of Pre-Han and Han jade at the Aurora Museum, Shanghai.Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2022, lot 2727 Price: HKD 2,520,000 or approx. EUR 289,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A jade dragon-form pendant, Western Han dynasty Expert remark: Compare the related manner of carving, stone, and subject, the dragon head with similar eyes, snout, and chin. Note the size (7.7 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Bonhams London, 18 May 2023, lot 21 Price: GBP 40,620 or approx. EUR 50,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A very rare archaic jade 'dragon and figure' pendant, xi, Warring States/Western Han dynasty Expert remark: Compare the related manner of carving, stone, and subject, with similar openwork and bird-like tail. Note the size (11.2 cm).13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.

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