A SMALL ARCHAIC JADE CARVING OF A 'PIG DRAGON', ZHULONG
新石器時代紅山文化或後期玉豬龍

A SMALL ARCHAIC JADE CARVING OF A 'PIG DRAGON', ZHULONG

Neolithic Period, Hongshan Culture (Circa 3500 - 2000 B.C.E)

新石器時代紅山文化或後期玉豬龍

The coiled zhulong ('Pig Dragon') delicately carved with wide, bulging eyes and flared nostrils over a wrinkled snout, the slit below the lips terminating before meeting the central perforation, pierced with a small aperture for suspension, carved from a mottled green and russet stone streaked with inclusions,

5.2cm high

PROVENANCE:

The Lowenson Collection, formed during the 1930s-1950s by Max Lowenson (1879-1945), a Cardiff business man born in Latvia;

Thence by descent as stated in a handwritten letter dated 1975;

Property of the Essex Collection of Early Chinese Art, British Private Collection, where some of the collection is now housed in the National Museum of Wales.

來源：

洛文森舊藏，於1930至1950年代由拉脫維亞裔卡迪夫商人馬克斯·洛文森(1879-1945)組成；

此後家族傳承，敘於一1975年信件中；

艾塞克斯早期中國藝術品，英國私人收藏，部份藏品現藏於威爾斯國家博物館。

REFERENCE:

Jades from China Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Angus Forsyth Brian McElney, p. 121, fig. 24.

Sold for £375

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