Western Zhou dynastyThe first one of a naturalistic curved silkworm shape with a ribbed body tapering to a pointed tail, the second with similar carving but a straight body, each has a pierced hole at one end. 1 1/8in (3cm), 1 1/2in (3.7cm) long (2).,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:西周 玉蠶珮兩件Provenance:J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, New York, 2016Literature: J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, Ancient China, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics, March-April 2016, New York, 2016, no. 31來源：藍理捷藝廊，紐約，2016年出版：J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, Ancient China, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics, 2016年3-4月, 紐約，2016年，圖錄編號31A comparison with a group of silkworm form pendants of similar design excavated at the Western Zhou Yu State burial site at Zhuyuangou, Baoji, Shaanxi province is fruitful, see Liancheng Lu and Zhisheng Hu, Baoji Yuguo mudi (Yu State Cemetries in Baoji), Vol. 2, Beijing, 1988. For three other examples dated to the Western Zhou dynasty, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, The Robert Youngman Collection of Chinese Jade, 3 April 2019, lot 3409, where the rarity of these silkworm pendants are noted. For a single example, see Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 212, no. 310.