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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
A Fine olive-celadon and calcified Jade scabbard slide
Han DynastyOf slightly curved rectangular outline and extremely well and sensitively carved in relief to one side with a sinuous chilong facing a smaller dragon, hui, within a beaded edge, the underside with the requisite rectangular loop placed off-center. 3 3/4in (9.5cm) across
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漢 螭龍紋玉劍璏Compare similar slides illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995, pp.299-302, no's 21:11 - 21:16. See also a slide with dragons carved in higher relief and dated to the Western Han illustrated by Max Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1975, p. 395, no. 572.See another example of yellow tone sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 'Adorning the Kings - A private Collection of Archaic Jade Ornaments', 31 May 2017, lot 2706; a slide also from the Robert Youngman Collection, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 3 April 2019, lot 3448 and dated to the Western Han dynasty; and another illustrated by J.J. Lally & Co., Arts of the Han Dynasty, March-April, 1998, no. 12. For a slide of slightly higher relief, dated to the Western Han era, in the Qing Court collection, see see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware I, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 220, no.183.
