Lot 3407. A white jade shield-form pendant, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-25); 7.1 by 4 by 0.5 cm, 2  3/4  by 1  5/8  by  1/4  in. Estimate 600,000 — 800,000 HKD. Lot sold 1,000,000 HKD (128,810 USD). Courtesy Sotheby's.

superbly worked after the ancient archer's ring, the pendant rendered with a shield surrounded by openwork stylised intertwining scrolls, including one with tapering end flaring outwards, the shield centred with an aperture, one side with a convex surface and decorated with a scrolling wave design, the flat reverse incised with scrolls containing hooks and barbs, the translucent stone of an even white colour accentuated with pale brown inclusions to one edge.

Provenance: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo.
Christie's New York, 26th March 2003, lot 31.
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Ltd, New York, 2003.

Literature: Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 72.