A WHITE JADE ‘TIGER’ PENDANT, LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIODJade. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, late Spring and Autumn period, 6th-5th century BCOf flattened form, carved as a crouching tiger in profile with curled tail and abstracted head, the body decorated with C-shaped scrolls, the tail and head pierced with small apertures. The translucent stone of a white tone with black specks and a small opaque area of beige-brown color with a minor chip.The present pendant, modeled in the form of a crouching tiger and densely embellished with C-shaped scrollwork, demonstrates a style typical of the late Spring and Autumn period. See two related dragon pendants, included in Teng Shuping, One Hundred Jades from the Lantien Shanfang Collection, Taipei, 1995, pl. 54. A similar pendant was unearthed in 1992 at Yimencun, Baoji, Shaanxi Province, illustrated by Liu Yunhui, Shaanxi chutu dongzhou yuqi (Eastern Zhou Jades Unearthed in Shaanxi), Beijing, 2006, p. 159.Museum comparison: Compare a related jade dragon pendant, dated c. 5th century BC, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2006.397.Auction comparison: Compare a related jade tiger pendant, also dated 6th-5th century BC, 10.2 cm long, at Christie’s New York in The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part III on 19 March 2015, lot 580 (sold for USD 40,000). Compare a related jade dragon pendant, dated Spring and Autumn period, 8.1 cm long, at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in Monochrome II on 9 October 2020, lot 26 (sold for HKD 327,600).LENGTH 8.2 cmProvenance: Private collection of Professor Filippo Salviati.