A Group Of Five Jade Bird Carvings And Pendants Song/Yuan Dynasty and later (5)

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A GROUP OF FIVE JADE BIRD CARVINGS AND PENDANTS Song/Yuan Dynasty and later Comprising a large cockerel of flattened form and incised with plumage, the stone of creamy white tone with greyish-black patches, 6cm (2 3/8in) wide ; a smaller cockerel, the stone of even pale white tone, 3cm (1 1/4in) long ; another cockerel, the stone of pale green tone with calcified patches, 3.8cm (1 1/2in) wide ; a smaller bird carving, the lower half black, the upper half of pale green tone, 2.6cm (1in) wide ; and a carving of two birds playfully clasping each other's tails, the stone of pale green tone, 2.1cm (7/8in) wide . (5). Footnotes: 宋/元及更晚 玉雕鳥及珮一組五件 See a related jade cockerel, excavated from a Song dynasty tomb in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, illustrated in The Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades (中國古玉器圖典), Beijing, 2007, p.307.