Fish with wings and feet  - Green opaque jade with calcification.
- Carved in the round with thread relief highlighted by slanting incised lines.Â
- Has a tiny hole at the bottom of the mouth for suspension?
- Fish with feet are not that unusual in Zhou style, but the wings are.
- (Well, there is an odd mingling of bird and fish characteristics in the Western Zhou; sometimes you can't tell which is dominant!)
- cf. Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, Boda Yang, 1995, vol 1, p. 202 for a similar fish identified as Western Zhou.
- 12,7 x 2.5 x 2 cm.Â
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