LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC

For other similar dragon-form pendants from the same period, see an example excavated one from the tomb of Minister Zhao of State Jin at Jinshengcun, Taiyuan, Shanxi province, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji-3-Shanxi, Beijing, p. 180; and another from tomb no. 1 of the Hougudui tomb site in Gushi County, Henan province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, nos. 122-123.