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Ancient Chinese Jade

March 15-29, 2018

AN ANCIENT JADE OPENWORK PLAQUE
136.
AN ANCIENT JADE OPENWORK PLAQUE

Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907)

of rectangular form, pierced and carved on the front with a pair of phoenix in flight with wings spread and long tail feathers trailing back amid scrolling clouds, the reverse incised with a simple outline of the design, the stone of olive tan color and showing some degradation of the glossy surface.

Length 6 38 inches (16.2 cm)

Ex Collection Dr. Franco Vannotti, Lugano, acquired from L. Wannieck, Paris, 1947

Exhibited and Published:
Ostasiatische Kunst und Chinoiserie, Cologne, Staatenhaus, 1953, no. 232
Eskenazi Ltd., Chinese and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr. Franco Vannotti, Hans Popper and others, London, 1989, pp. 96-97, no. 44

A very similar jade plaque from the same set in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated by Zhang, Shanghai bowuguan cangpin yanjiu daxi: Zhongguo gudai yuqi (Research series of the Shanghai Museum Collection: Ancient Chinese Jades), Shanghai, 2009, p. 194, no. 154. Another example is illustrated by Siren, Kinas Konst under Tre Artusenden, Vol. II, Stockholm, 1943, fig. 236, and another similar plaque is in the Art Institute of Chicago, from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, no. 1950.902.

唐 透雕玉牌 長16.2厘米
來源 盧加諾Franco Vannotti博士1947年購自巴黎L. Wannieck
展覽及著錄 Ostasiatische Kunst und Chinoiserie,科隆1953,第232號
      埃斯卡納齊Chinese and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr. Franco Vannotti, Hans Popper and others,倫敦1989,96-97頁,第44號

136.
AN ANCIENT JADE OPENWORK PLAQUE

Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907)

Length 6 38 inches (16.2 cm)

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