Two archaic jade fish-form pendants

Shang - Western Zhou dynasty

商至西周 玉雕魚形珮兩件

each of elongated rectangular form depicting a fish in profile, the head with large incised circular eyes and curved gill, the body detailed with fins and terminating in a bifurcated tail, the mouth pierced with a small aperture, the stone of a variegated celadon color (2)

Length of larger 3 ? in., 8.6 cm

Collection of John Story Jenks (1876-1946), and thence by descent. 

來源

John Story Jenks (1876-1946) 收藏，此後家族傳承