A RARE PAIR OF ARCHAIC PALE GREEN JADE PENDANTS WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
together forming a huan, each of flattened arched form pierced at both ends with a small aperture, lightly impressed to one side with an abstract design of stylized confronting mythical birds, the softly polished stone of a pale celadon color with occasional sugar-brown areas (2)
Width 4 3/4 in., 12 cm
Provenance:
Primus Gallery, Los Angeles, 4th December 1960.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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together forming a huan, each of flattened arched form pierced at both ends with a small aperture, lightly impressed to one side with an abstract design of stylized confronting mythical birds, the softly polished stone of a pale celadon color with occasional sugar-brown areas (2)
Width 4 3/4 in., 12 cm
Provenance:
Primus Gallery, Los Angeles, 4th December 1960.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).