Shang dynasty or later Carved in the round to depict a standing owl, the body neatly delineated with ridged scrolls forming the wings and feathers, the upward-looking head with hooked beak and large eyes on the upper surface below a notched crest with horizontal hole for suspension, the spine with similar notches. 2 1/16in (5.3cm) high,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:商或更晚 青玉鴞形珮Literature: Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection, Chinese Jades, From Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, p. 49, no. 39出版：羅伯特·楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器 新石器時代至清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版39，頁49For a similar bird carving, see Yinxu fu Hao mu (The Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), 1980, reprint Beijing: Wenwu, 1984, p. 165, fig. 85, no. 9 (507), and color pl. XXXI, no. 1 (507).Another green jade owl dated to the late Shang dynasty (ca. 14th-mid-11th century BCE) was sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Chinese Archaic Jades from the Yangdetang Collection, Part II, 28 November 2018, lot 2720. Though lacking the notched spine of our example, the decoration bears comparison. Another bird pendant, with the addition of a tall overlapping foliate headdress, dated to the Shang dynasty is illustrated by Liu Yang, Translucent World, Chinese Jade from the Forbidden City, Sydney, 2000, p. 58, no. 11, can also be compared.The owl as a decorative motif commonly appears on bronze vessels of the Shang dynasty and early jades were inspired by such vessels, see William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962, pls. 13a, 36b and 36c for the bronze pre-cursors. For a closely related jade owl of slightly larger proportions (6.5 cm. high), unearthed in Fuhao's tomb in Anyang, see Zhongguo yuqi quanji, 'Compendium of Chinese Jade', (Shang/Western Zhou), Vol. 2, Hebei, 1993, p. 65, no. 82. A celadon and russet jade owl dated to the Shang dynasty also from the Robert P. Youngman Collection was offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 April 2019, lot 3416.