A JADE 'DOUBLE-DRAGON' PENDANT, HUANG

MID-WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-300 BC

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A JADE 'DOUBLE-DRAGON' PENDANT, HUANG
MID-WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-300 BC
The arc-shaped pendant is carved with a dragon's head with a split mouth on both ends with a conjoined body, carved with comma spirals on both side and pierced with a suspension hole to the centre and to one lower snout of the dragon. The semi-translucent stone is of pale greyish tone with black speckling.
4 3⁄8 in. (11.2 cm.) long, box

Provenance

The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1988

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Lot Essay

Compare three ‘double-dragon’ pendants of this shape excavated at the Guwei Village tomb site, Hui County, Henan Province, one plain, the other two nearly identical to each other and very similar to the present pendant but with a more angular jaw, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, nos. 195, 196, 197, respectively.

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