WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne

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100 A rare bone comb Western Zhou dynasty Height: 4D in, 10.8 cm one side is slightly convex. The edges are carved with birds’ heads in profile beneath a geometric crown, and both sides are decorated with incised lines and circles and pierced, all above tapering teeth. There is accumulation of sand in the recessed areas, and the surface bears some cinnabar traces. Combs were made of various materials including bone, ivory, jade and wood in ancient China: see, for example, two jade combs from the late Shang dynasty in Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang, fig. 2, pl. CXXVIII, one with confronting birds in profile, and the other with a plain top and a geometric crest. A jade comb of the middle Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated in Yang, The Beauty of Jade, no. 101, p. 79, is decorated with a related design of confronting birds. Note also a jade tablet with similar workmanship and design, dated Western Zhou, in Jarrige, National museum Arts asiatiques – Guimet, p. 80; and a bone hairpin, in the collection of the British Museum, with animals’ heads in profile, in Watson, Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, no. 4, p. 29. 101 An unusual bone comb Tang dynasty or Five Dynasties Length: 4B in, 10.4 cm of hemispherical form and tapering towards the sides. The top is pierced with two friezes: a wider floral design above a simple leaf scroll. The teeth are narrow and regular. The material has partly turned a mellow turquoise colour through burial. A very similar example is illustrated in White, Tombs of Old Lo-yang, no. 147, pl. LX. Note also closely related jade combs in Jadeware (II): The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, no. 16, p. 18; and in Zhang, Jadeware (I): The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, no. 193, p. 184. Clunas illustrates a similar hemispherical bone comb in Chinese Carving, fig. 1, p. 10, dated AD 1000–1100.
102 ROGER KEVERNE <strong>WINTER</strong> <strong>2008</strong> 127 A very small and unusual bone tortoise seal Western Han dynasty N in, 1.9 cm square the square-section seal is surmounted by a recumbent tortoise with its head raised and an incised carapace. The base is carved with three characters, most probably reading Mo si ma (Assistant Commander). For related gilt-bronze tortoise seals of the Western Han, see A Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Bronze Seals Throughout the Dynasties in the National Palace Museum, nos. 111–19, pp. 178–86.
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FINE AND RARE CHINESE WORKS OF ART
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