A JADE DRAGON-FORM PENDANT

WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

Details

A JADE DRAGON-FORM PENDANT
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
In the form of a sinuous dragon with rope-twist design, the pendant is constructed in sections and connected by two metal mounts. There is a suspension hole to the top of the tail and a tiny circular dent to the back of the neck.
6 1⁄2 in. (16.8 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1991

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Lot Essay

Compare with a similar slender jade dragon-form pendant also incised with rope-twist design but with its tail curving upwards and bending above the body, illustrated in Zhongguo guyu duandai yu bianwei-2-guyu dongwu yu shenyishou juan, Beijing, 2007, p. 358, no. 785.

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