EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 3RD CENTURY BC

Details

AN ARCHAIC JADE ‘DRAGON’ FINIAL
EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 3RD CENTURY BC
3 1⁄8 in. (8 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1995
Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Chang Wei-Hwa Collection of Archaic Jades- Qin and Han Dynasties, 29 November 2022, lot 2732 (part)

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Lot Essay

Compare to a very similar jade dragon finial (fig. 1)., also with the attachment lost, discovered from Tomb no. 2 in Luopowan, Guangxi, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, vol. 9, Jade, Beijing, 1986, pl. 178.

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