A GROUP OF THREE JADE DRAGON-FORM PENDANTS

LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC

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A GROUP OF THREE JADE DRAGON-FORM PENDANTS
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC
The group comprises three sinuous jade dragon-form pendants with comma sprials and c-scrolls carved in low relief on both sides, and tiny holes at centres for suspension, the pendant shown in the centre of the illustration has an additional hole at the head.
Longest: 3 3⁄4 in. (9.5 cm.) long, boxes

Provenance

The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1988

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For other similar dragon-form pendants from the same period, see an example excavated one from the tomb of Minister Zhao of State Jin at Jinshengcun, Taiyuan, Shanxi province, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji-3-Shanxi, Beijing, p. 180; and another from tomb no. 1 of the Hougudui tomb site in Gushi County, Henan province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, nos. 122-123.

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