LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC

The present pendant may have been adapted from jade carvings from the Qijia Culture (circa 2050-1700 BC). The style of carving, especially the double-lined scrolls are simialr to those found on two jade pendants excavated from the Yanshan hoard at Wu County, Jiangsu province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, nos. 94, 95.