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Jun 2, 2020
Jun 2, 2020
Jade Plaque
Jade Plaque
475–221 BC
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Nephrite
Overall: 22.5 x 8.9 cm (8 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the John L. Severance Fund 1991.78.1
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This beautiful pair of late Eastern Zhou openwork jade plaques illustrate a level of creativity and technical achievement that was unequaled before or since. Taking the shape of a pair of fantastic creatures, they are at once tigerlike, rhinolike, and dragonlike. Their strong silhouettes are marked with shallow relief bands, and their subtly swelling embellished surfaces are finished to the same degree on both sides.
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