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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Chinese Works of Art & Ceramics (Part II)
• Sale Date:
  12 Dec 2016 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  138
• Lot Description:
  A Rare Pair of Green Jade Zoomorphic Pendants, Late Shang Dynasty (1200-1100 BCE)
  each pendant appears to have been carved from the same section of jade, and represents a stylised crouching animal with a long tail (possibly a tiger), the semi-translucent stone with calcification to the lower extremities and drilled with five tiny holes for attachment; fitted box
  7.2 cm high, 8.5 cm wide
• Provenance:
  Capital Gallery, Hong Kong
• References:
  see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, pl. 12.7, pp. 213-214, for a plaque in the same style and very similar stone and pl. 12.8 for a jade tiger around the same period
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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