西漢晚期至東漢早期 玉羽人辟邪
LATE WESTERN HAN - EARLY EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 86 BC - AD 88
成交價 港元 11,870,000 號牌：8188
估價 港元 800,000 – 港元 1,500,000
西漢晚期至東漢早期 玉羽人辟邪
2 1⁄8 in. (5.5 cm.) long
來源
雲中居，台北，1994年11月2日
出版
鄧淑蘋，《羣玉別藏續集》，台北，1999年，頁233，圖版152號
展覽
國立故宮博物院，《羣玉別藏續集》，台北，1999年
此件玉雕極為珍貴，題材極其罕見。辟邪雙捲角有鬚，翼羽貼於身側，作前行狀。臀上跪騎一羽人，肩上披短斗蓬式的羽衣，兩手分別抓握辟邪的髯毛與捲角，表現仙人騎著辟邪遨游太空時的姿態。
仙的概念在漢代文獻中屢見不鮮。王逸注：「《山海經》言：有羽人之國，不死之民。或曰：人得道，身生毛羽也。」洪興祖補注：「羽人，飛仙也」。可見飛仙在漢代思想與信仰世界中具有特殊的象徵意義。作為飛仙，羽人出沒於陰陽兩界，被視為長生不老的載體，也是引領衆生與亡魂飛升仙界的使者。
西漢晚期漢元帝渭陵曾發現一件白玉羽人玉馬，見《中國玉器全集-秦漢-南北朝》，河北，1993年，圖版147號（圖一），可見此題材對於帝王的重要性。另可參考美國華盛頓亞洲藝術博物館賽可樂珍藏一件玉羽人辟邪，舘藏編號S1987.26。
此辟邪的雕刻風格與陝西省寶鷄市博物館藏青玉辟邪式座（長18公分）之風格頗為接近，見《中國玉器全集-4-秦漢-南北朝》，河北，1993年，圖版264號
A JADE CARVING OF A BIXIE AND WINGED IMMORTAL
LATE WESTERN HAN - EARLY EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 86 BC - AD 88
2 1⁄8 in. (5.5 cm.) long
PROVENANCE
Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 2 November 1994
LITERATURE
Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 233, no. 152
EXHIBITED
The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999
The concept of winged immortals played an essential role in the Han dynasty belief systems. As Wang Yi writes in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, published circa 124 BC, 'There is a kingdom of flying immortals with feathers, where they do not die. Some say that when one attains the Dao, their body grows feathers.' These feathered beings were regarded as the embodiment of immortality and also as messengers guiding sentient beings and departed souls to ascend to the immortal realm.
Jades carved in the round, depicting a winged immortal riding on an animal, are extremely rare. Other examples illustrating this theme include a white jade carving of a winged immortal riding on a horse discovered at the Mausoleum of Emperor Yuan of late Western Han dynasty, see Zhongguo yuqi quanji-4-Qin, Han, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Hebei, 1993, no. 147 (fig. 1); a jade carving of a winged immortal riding on a bixie from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, National Museum of Asian Art, object number: S1987.26. It is also worth comparing the style of carving with a celadon jade bixie-form stand in the Baoji Municipal Museum, illustrated ibid., no. 264 (fig. 2).
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