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Lot 75

A Pair of Chinese Turquoise and Gold Earrings, Erzhui, Warring States Period or Later
戰國或以後 松石金耳墜
Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$5,440
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A Pair of Chinese Turquoise and Gold Earrings, Erzhui, Warring States Period or Later
戰國或以後 松石金耳墜
Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC) or later

Each compressed globular earring is decorated with small raised beads, connected to two further loops, suspending a trapezoidal cylindrical turquoise bead.
Note:
A pair from the Warring States period and currently at the Inner Mongolian Museum, see LI, Ya. Erpan Liuguang, Zhongguo Lidai Erhuan. Beijing: Zhongguo Fangzhipin Press, 2015, p 42, chart 2-3, no. 1.

For two similar pairs, see LIN, Yeqiang. Celestial Creations, Art of the Chinese Goldsmith, The Cheng Xun Tang Collection I. Hongkong: The Chinese University of Hongkong, 2007, p 24-25.

在首飾上鑲嵌綠松石,流行於中亞、西亞,匈奴作為東西方交流的中介,将其传入中原。參見内蒙古博物院藏内蒙古鄂爾多斯市杭錦旗阿魯柴登出土戰國鑲松石金耳墜;以及香港承训堂藏戰國鑲松石金耳墜,收錄于林業強主編《寶蘊迎祥:承訓堂藏金I》,2007年香港中文大學中國文化研究所文物館,第24-25頁。

Length of each 1 3/4 in., 4.4 cm.

Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.

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