Lot 224. A black jade bird-form pendant, Shang-Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1500-771 BC); Length 1¼ in., 3.3 cm. Lot sold: 5,040 USD (Estimate: 1,500 - 2,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022

Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Speed Art Museum.

Provenance: - Collection of Christian Humann (1929-1981), the Pan-Asian Collection.

- Sotheby's New York, 6th December 1989, lot 1. 

- Collection of William H. and Sophia H. Harrison.

- Gifted to the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, in 2000 (acc. no. 2000.13.15).

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 23 March 2022