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THREE ELONGATED JADE PENDANTS, HUANG
Lot 1732THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION

THREE ELONGATED JADE PENDANTS, HUANG

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, SOUTHEAST CHINA, 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM BC

Fermé25 September 2020

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THREE ELONGATED JADE PENDANTS, HUANG
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, SOUTHEAST CHINA, 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM BC
The group comprises two handle-shaped huang and an arc-shaped huang, carved from pale greyish-green jade with extensive alteration, and with a satiny polish. Each is curved upward at the ends and has small holes drilled from both sides.
5 ¾ in. (14.7 cm.) wide

The Irving Collection, New York, by 1987.

Note du spécialiste


A pale green jade huang of this shape, dated Neolithic period, c. 2500 BC, is illustrated by Jessica Rawson in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, p. 145, no. 5:13. Two further jade huang of this shape and of similar date from the collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth were sold at Christie’s New York 19 March 2015, lot 527.