GEWUNDENER GEHÖRNTER DRACHE MIT JUNGEM – GEGENSTÜCK ZUM BERÜHMTEN DRACHENAMULETT IM MUSÉE GUIMET
28.04.2017 17:00UTC +01:00
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10000EUR € 10 000
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ID 937
Lot 63 | GEWUNDENER GEHÖRNTER DRACHE MIT JUNGEM – GEGENSTÜCK ZUM BERÜHMTEN DRACHENAMULETT IM MUSÉE GUIMET
Estimate value
€ 20 000
Jade
China
Östliche Zhou, 5. Jahrhundert Vor
LÄNGE 15,4 CM, STÄRKE UM 5 MM
玉龍(跟吉美國立亞洲藝術博物館藏有名的玉龍護身符成一對)。中國,東周代,春秋時期,公元前5世紀。長15.4厘米,厚約0.5厘米。維也納私人舊藏。
Dieser fantastisch gearbeitete Drache hat sein berühmtes größeres Gegenstück im Musée Guimet, Paris (L 23 cm). Der Körper des Drachen ist mehrfach gewunden, der hintere Abschnitt ein richtiges S und endet in einer Volute. Der Drachenkopf hat einen amboßförmigen Unterkiefer und ein großes, bogig abstehendes Horn, das eine Bein, das er hat, ist fast gleich dem Horn ausgeführt. Vermutlich ist hier die einbeinige archaische Drachenform des Kuilong gegeben. Am hinteren Ende befindet sich ein kleines, mehr schlangenförmiges Wesen, möglicherweise ein Drachenjunges. Am Rücken des Drachen liegt - eingebettet zwischen zwei bogig hochstehenden Ansätzen - ein ringförmigovales Stück. Alle diese Einzelheiten sind genauso ausgeführt und vorhanden wie in den unten genannten Beispielen in bekannten Museen. Beidseitig ist der fl ache Drachenkörper, dessen Rand leicht hochstehend ist, mit kleinen Wolkenspiralen versehen, die Wowen - “Wirbelmuster” - genannt werden. Auf dem dekorativen Ring zeigt das Relief gereihte liegende C mit Voluten-Enden. Die Farbe dieser seltenen Jade ist ein sehr lichtes Grüngrau, aufgrund der Alterung weißliche Bereiche sowie rotbraune. Sehr guter, kompletter Zustand.
Ein sehr ähnliches Drachenpaar fi ndet sich in der Jadensammlung des Museums Guimet in Paris. Und einer dieser auf dem Titel des Kataloges der Ausstellung “Arte Cinese”, die 1954 im Palazzo Ducale in Venedig abgehalten war.
Diese Jade wird in dem Buch von FILIPPO SALVIATI: “THE MYSTERIOUS STONE: Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Han in private collections” publiziert (Erscheinungstermin Frühjahr 2017).
Notes by Prof. Salviati: This ornament is carved in the shape of a dragon with a sinuous body accompanied by a curling snake carved near the tail that resembles a stylized bird head with a long crest. A ring, held by two small protrusions which probably stand for shortened wings, is placed between the two central bends of the body that is entirely decorated with raised curls, while that of the snake is engraved with a scale-like pattern. Instead, the protruding crest of the dragon is marked by three bands with slightly raised ridges, as the other appendages that emerge from the dragon’s body. Openwork dragons, snakes and birds, occasionally holding rings, were carved within the cultural sphere of the Chu state, in southern China, to which this finely executed jade can be safely attributed. The closest comparable example is offered by a pair of twin dragon-shaped pendants in the Musée Guimet, Paris (length 23 cm), which were sliced from the same block of jade and carved identically. Similarly to this lot, the Guimet dragons are also represented as holding a ring, and their bodies are bent in the same manner with a snake carved at one extremity: a difference though is represented by the fact that the crests of the Guimet dragons are shaped as a bird’s head, and not their tails. One of the Guimet dragons was exhibited in 1954 in the Ducal Palace of Venice on the occasion of an exhibition of Chinese art. The dragon is also featured on the jacket of the accompanying exhibition catalogue, Arte Cinese, and illustrated in plate X under no.195. The pair of dragons in the Musée Guimet was published for the first time by H. Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades, London 1968, pl.45 and has also been reproduced in J. Ayers and J. Rawson, Chinese Jades throughout the Ages, London 1975, no.115.
Expertise: Wolfmar Zacken & Filippo Salviati
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