A FINE CARVED JADE PENDANT

Estimated Value:

1.200 € - 1.800 €

Schätzpreis:

1.200 €

Description:

China, probably Western Zhou Dynasty
L. 14,4 cm
Yellow, highly translucent, slightly cloudy jade, three fine perforations in head, back and tail. The silhouette shows in flat "huang" shape a crouched tiger with thick curled tail, the entire body surface covered on both sides with single incised spirals, C and S shapes. The elongated eyes are double contoured, paws and claws defined by engraved lines. Wood stand.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired in the 1980s
Publ. Zeileis, "Selected Chinese Jades from seven millennia," 1994, no. 114, p. 142
Beautiful age patina

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