<p class="ql-block">编辑：旭东 顺喜 铭台 刊发：旭东</p> <p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b style="font-size:20px;">首先致谢</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>梅英明先生 Jeffrey May</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">美国芝加哥亚洲艺术遗产博物馆创始人</p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>汪涛 博士 Dr. Tao Wang</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">芝加哥艺术博物馆亚洲拓展事务执行总裁</p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">亚洲艺术部普利兹克专席主任</p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">中国艺术总策展人</p> <p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>芝加哥亚洲艺术遗产博物馆</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>经典藏品（三）</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">哈图｜整理</p> <p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>003</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>A RARE YELLOW JADE </b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>PIG-DRAGON, ZHULONG</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;"><b>新石器時代/紅山文化 黄玉豬龍</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">Neolithic Period / Hongshan Culture</p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">Height 4.8 cm.</p> <p class="ql-block"> 玉質神獸雕作「C」形，首部刻劃精細，雙角似羊角，角間雕有大而突出的雙目，吻端作皺紋狀。吻下開一橫槽，以區分首部與身體。項後角間鑽孔，以便懸掛。玉質細潤，磨琢光潔，色呈淡黃色。</p><p class="ql-block"> 此類形制因貌似「龍首豕吻」而為今人稱作「豬龍」 James C.Y. Watt曾於Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum，西雅圖，1989年，頁33指出，此類玉器乃最早之缺口玉璧之一種，其缺口自邊緣延至中心，被認為是最早的龍形表現。</p><p class="ql-block"> 豬龍形玉器於歷代商代遺址中屢有出土。潔西卡·羅森(Jessica Rawson)，Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing，芝加哥，2002年，頁116-117指出，此一器形在紅山文化中具有極大重要性，出土數量眾多，工藝精美，足證其地位之顯著。</p> <p class="ql-block"> The mythical creature carved in a 'C' shape with a well-rendered head, detailed with large bulging eyes carved between ram-like horns and a wrinkled snout. A horizontal slit below the snout separating the head from the end of the body. Drilled through the neck behind the horns with an aperture for suspension. The smoothly polished stone of a pale yellow color.</p><p class="ql-block"> The resemblance of these carvings to a dragon with a pig's snout have given them the modern name zhulong, meaning pig-dragon. As mentioned by James C.Y. Watt in Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, p. 33, these carvings are among the earliest jades to come in the form of a slit-disc, with the slit running from the edge to the center, and are believed to be the earliest depictions of the creature that would evolve into the Chinese dragon.</p><p class="ql-block"> Jade zhulong have been recovered from Shang sites of all periods, and Jessica Rawson notes on pp.116-117 in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, Chicago, 2002, that this shape was of great importance to the Hongshan people as evidenced by the large numbers of beautifully worked examples of this form.</p>