A GROUP OF FIVE JADE BIRD CARVINGS AND PENDANTS Song/Yuan Dynasty and later Comprising a large cockerel of flattened form and incised with plumage, the stone of creamy white tone with greyish-black patches, 6cm (2 3/8in) wide; a smaller cockerel, the stone of even pale white tone, 3cm (1 1/4in) long; another cockerel, the stone of pale green tone with calcified patches, 3.8cm (1 1/2in) wide; a smaller bird carving, the lower half black, the upper half of pale green tone, 2.6cm (1in) wide; and a carving of two birds playfully clasping each other's tails, the stone of pale green tone, 2.1cm (7/8in) wide. (5). Footnotes: 宋/元及更晚 玉雕鳥及珮一組五件 See a related jade cockerel, excavated from a Song dynasty tomb in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, illustrated in The Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades (中國古玉器圖典), Beijing, 2007, p.307. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing