Anhänger aus gelbbrauner Jade in Form einer Gottesanbeterin (?)

Lot 241
06.12.2022 09:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 241 | Anhänger aus gelbbrauner Jade in Form einer Gottesanbeterin (?)
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€ 800 – 1 200
A YELLOW-BROWN JADE PENDANT OF A PRAYING MANTIS (?) - China, probably earlier Zhou dynasty - Naturalistic depiction of the always somewhat sinister animal, around which many legends have grown up because of its bravery and tactical skill. Its main food is cicadas, symbols of rebirth. What ritual significance this had is difficult to say. - Important Austrian private collection, acquired in the 1980s Publ. Zeileis, "Selected Jades from Seven Millennia," 1994, no. 149, p. 181 Cf. Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco 1977, pl.IX Very minor traces of age
China, vermutlich frühere Zhou-Dynastie
L. 5,8 cm
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