A RARE GREEN GLASS ‘BIRD’ PENDANT, HAN DYNASTY
China, 202 BC-220 AD. The flattened plaque carved as a bird with a long neck, the head turned back, the beak gently curved, the tail fanning out, the body carved to one side with C-scroll designs to denote wings and feathers. Pierced with two small apertures for suspension.


Provenance:
From a private collection in France, acquired in Hong Kong between the 1960s and 1980s.

Condition:
Fair condition, commensurate with age. Wear, signs of weathering and erosion, repairs, encrustations, nibbling to the edges, all as expected for a glass object with an age of two millennia.

Weight: 8.1 g
Dimensions: Length 4.4 cm


Literature comparison:

Compare a related glass bi disk made using a similar bluish-green glass, 12.1 cm diameter, dated Warring States period to Western Han dynasty, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number LTS1985.1.257.2a-b.




漢代綠玻璃鳥形佩

中國，公元前 202 年至公元 220 年。扁平佩飾，鳥形，頭向後轉，喙輕輕彎曲，尾巴呈扇形展開，身體一側刻有卷云紋表示翅膀和羽毛。穿有兩個小孔用於懸掛。


來源：
法國私人收藏，二十世紀六十年代至八十年代購於香港。

品相：
狀況尚可，磨損、風化和侵蝕的跡象、修復、結殼、邊緣磕損。

重量：8.1 克
尺寸：長 4.4 厘米


文獻比較：

比較一件相近的戰國時期至西漢青玉壁，直徑12.1厘米，收藏於史密森學會國立藝術博物館，館藏編號LTS1985.1.257.2a-b。