Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 7. (Budapest, 1964)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Four Archaic Chinese Jade Carwings

Fig. 5/a-b. Official jade. Warring States of jade are less commonly known. Recently the rich finds of the Chinese excavations of Hui Hsien, Ku Wei Ts'un yielded a newer type found in grave no. 2.

16 This is rounded, and not flatly modelled, like our example. The ,,kneeling captive" published by Alfred Salmony

11 is also a round figure, alike to the bronze figures. For the roundness and simplification so characteristic for a group of Han period human figures some good examples are to be found in Salmony's book.

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e should remember though that this is the style of one group only, in both human and animal representation. Besides this, a new style is also apparant especially concerning the animal figures. This male figure, that of an official is also from the Warring States period (475 — 221 B. C). 16 Hui Hsien fa-chüeh hsüeh-pao (Report on the excavations of Hui Hsien) Peking, 1956. fig. 110. 5., front and side view = pi. 66.6. It was also published by William Watson: Archaeology in China. London, Max Parrish, 1960. fig. 83. b. 17 Archaic Chinese Jades from Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1952. Pl. LXXXVI. 1 — 2. 18 Op. cit. CIV. 1-4.