TWO JADE 'DOUBLE-DRAGON' PENDANTS

LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC

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TWO JADE 'DOUBLE-DRAGON' PENDANTS
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC
The lot comprises a jade arc-shaped ‘dragon'pendant, huang, with serrated edges and carved with comma spirals on both sides depicting two dragons with a conjoined body and their heads on either end; and a semi-circle ‘dragon’ pendant, heng, with serrated edges andcarved with c-scrolls and comma spirals on both sides depicting abstract dragons.
Huang: 4 1⁄8 in. (10.3 cm.) long, box
Heng: 4 7⁄8 in. (12.5 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Huang: The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1989
Heng: The Yangdetang Collection, acquired before 1999 from E Yuan Tang Chinese Art, Taipei

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Lot Essay

For a similar ‘double-dragon’ huang, see an example excavated from tomb no. 1 at Hougudui tomb site, Gushi County, Henan Province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, no. 127. For a similar heng, see an example illustrated in Jades of Warring States Period, Taipei, 2007, no. 50.

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