Lot 146. A jade pendant, huang, Neolithic period, circa 2500 BC. Length 12.3 cm, 4⅞ in. Lot sold: 3,276 GBP (Estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 GBP). © 2022 Sotheby's.

carved from pale green stone with flecks of brown, of flattened arc-shape, with one small hole at one end, and two small holes at the other.

Provenance: Luen Chai Curios, Hong Kong, 12th November 1990.

Literature: Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 15:13.

Sotheby's. HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day. London, 8 December 2022