WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC- AD 8)

Details

A VERY RARE JADE 'DRAGON' PENDANT
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC- AD 8)
3 5⁄8 in. (9.3 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1997
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, Adorning the Kings- A Private Collection of Archaic Jade Ornaments, 31 May 2017, lot 2718

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Lot Essay

This fine pendant is carved with two conjoined dragons with their heads turning towards the centre. It is particularly finely detailed and decorated, with well-defined features and a lustrous polish. This type of pendants was popular in the Warring States period. Compare an example from the Yanggongxiang tomb now in the Beijing Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Jadeware (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 169, no. 140 (Fig. 1).

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