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A jade 'dragon' ring, Late Warring States period - early Western Han dynasty | 戰國晚期至西漢早期 龍紋玉瑗

Estimate

300,000 - 900,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

5.9 cm

Tiffany Chen, Selected Works of Jade, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2003, pl. 134.

Tsai Ching-Liang, Jades of Han Dynasty, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2005, pl. 26.

Skilfully modelled in the form of a dragon within a ring resembling a twisted rope, this pendant testifies to the virtuosic craftsmanship of the Warring States period to early Han dynasty. For Warring States period jade rings worked with this ‘rope-twist’ design, see one from the Qing court collection and preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 121. For other Warring States jade ‘dragon’ pendants with the beasts’ bodies rendered to resemble a twisted rope, see one sold in these rooms, 9th April 2024, lot 3611, and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object no. 1985.214.99.


出版

陳臻儀,《古玉選粹》,震旦藝術博物館,台北,2003年,圖版134

蔡慶良,《漢代玉器》,震旦藝術博物館,台北,2005年,圖版26


此件玉瑗內雕一龍,構思精巧;環身雕作絞繩紋,龍形盤踞其中,充分展現戰國至西漢初期高超嫻熟之琢玉工藝。


採用此類絞繩紋設計之戰國時期玉瑗,可參見一件清宮舊藏、現藏於北京故宮博物院之例,著錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集:玉器(一)》,香港,1996年,圖版121。另可參考兩例戰國時期龍形玉器,其獸身雕作絞繩狀者,一例售於香港蘇富比2024年4月9日,拍品編號3611;另一例藏於紐約大都會藝術博物館,館藏編號1985.214.99。