Lot 187: A JADE BIRD & TWO JADE CYLINDERS Jade bird: style of Hongshan culture Jade finial: style of Warring States Jade cylindrical bead: Eastern Zhou/Han Dynasty

A JADE BIRD & TWO JADE CYLINDERS

Jade bird: style of Hongshan culture

Jade finial: style of Warring States

Jade cylindrical bead: Eastern Zhou/Han Dynasty

The stylized bird in frontal view with large round eyes and pointed beak, the body flanked by wings and carved with two half-circles to indicate feet, the back perforated with a channel for attachment, the stone softly polished and stained black in areas; the finial finely incised with scrolling vines, the underside flat, the olive-green stone softly polished; the cylindrical bead perforated at the center, the dark green stone softly polished inside and out. (3)


Bird: 1 7/8in (4.8cm) wide;
Finial: 7/8in (2.2cm) diam;
Bead: 1in (2.5cm) long

玉飾三件 仿紅山 玉鳥 仿戰國 玉頂飾 東周/漢 玉勒子



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Susan Chen & Company, Hong Kong, 8 October 1992 (bird)

Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 99 (bird)

Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-present




來源：

香港 Susan Chen & Company 古董行，1992 年 10 月 8 日 (玉鳥)

佛羅倫斯 (1920-2018) 及赫伯特·歐雲 (1917-2016) 伉儷（Florence and Herbert Irving）舊藏，藏品編號 99 (玉鳥)

歐雲伉儷贈，2015 年

大都會藝術博物館，2015 年迄今

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