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Height 4⅜ in., 11 cm
来源:安思遠,紐約
Anthony Carter Ltd.,倫敦
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说明:Large jade ornaments of this distinctive form are characteristic of the Hongshan culture, with numerous examples excavated from Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia. Although traditionally identified as headpieces, Jenny F. So has recently proposed that they may instead have been worn as forearm guards to protect the wrist and lower arm (see Jenny F. So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2019, p. 74). In support of this interpretation, she cites a Hongshan example found positioned on the forearm of an individual interred at Site III, Niuheliang, as well as a comparable ornament recovered from the Bronze Age cemetery at Dadianzi in present-day Inner Mongolia.
For closely related examples, see five illustrated in Gu Fang, The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 2 Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Beijing, 2005, pls 33-37. Similar examples have also appeared at auction. See a calcified example, previously in the Yangdetang Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28th November 2018, lot 2705; one of pale green color, previously in the collection of Baron Claus-Detlof von Oertzen, and illustrated in S. Howard Hansford, Jade: Essence of Hills and Streams, Johannesburg, 1969, p. 103, sold in the same rooms, 30th November 2016, lot 3209; and lastly, one, from the collection of Max Loehr, included in Chinese Archaic Jades and Bronzes from the Estate of Professor Max Loehr and Others, J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1993, cat. no. 20, sold in our Paris rooms, 15th December 2016, lot 23.