A VERY RARE JADE RETICULATED ‘PHOENIX’ ARCHER’S RING

EARLY TO MID-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

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A VERY RARE JADE RETICULATED ‘PHOENIX’ ARCHER’S RING

EARLY TO MID-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

The thumb ring-form pendant is surmounted by a reticulated phoenix grasping a small snake in its beak, the pendant incised with scrolling motifs.

2 7⁄8 in. (7.4 cm.) long, box

来源

Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1996

出版

Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, no. 223

展览

Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, The National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 223

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拍品专文

This pendant is delicately carved with a phoenix grasping a worm or a snake. Such motif can also be found on a jade carving unearthed from a Han dynasty tomb in Mancheng, Hebei province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 4, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 95.

EARLY TO MID-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

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