EARLY-MID WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 476-300 BC

Details

A LARGE JADE OPENWORK 'DRAGON' PENDANT
EARLY-MID WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 476-300 BC
10 3⁄4 in. (27.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 28 January 1992

Literature

Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 257, no. 174

Exhibited

The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999

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Lot Essay

The present pendant is carved in openwork as a large soaring dragon, and it is one of the largest examples known. Compare to a similar jade dragon pendant in the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumns and Warring States, Hebei, 1993, no. 215 (fig. 1).

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