Han dynasty or later The hook-beaked bird looking over its back with simple channeled folded back wings utilizing the Han badou technique and similar horizontally-cut long tail feathers, the claws modelled atop a cylindrical hollow base, the matte stone with a dry appearance. 2 1/8in (5.5cm) across,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:漢或更晚 玉鳥飾Literature: Michael B. Weisbrod, Inc., Metal, Mud and Minerals: An Exhibition of Chinese Works of Art, New York, 1989, no. 51Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection, Chinese Jades, From Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, p. 81, no. 79出版：Michael B. Weisbrod, Inc., Metal, Mud and Minerals: An Exhibition of Chinese Works of Art, 紐約, 1989年, 圖錄編號51羅伯特·楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器 新石器時代至清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版79，頁81According to Youngman, ibid., p. 81, bird finials like this one were mounted atop staffs that were given to and carried by men upon reaching the age of seventy years of age. The lines of its wings and tail feathers are boldly delineated with pronounced cuts that are perpendicular on one side and slanting on the other, forming a stepped effect, in a style that is known as Han badou (Han eight cuts).For a later Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) jade bird finial utilizing the Han badou technique also from the Robert Youngman Collection, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 3 April 2019, lot 3421.