A YELLOWISH-CELADON JADE RETICULATED 'DOUBLE-DRAGON' PENDANT

MID-WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-300 BC

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A YELLOWISH-CELADON JADE RETICULATED 'DOUBLE-DRAGON' PENDANT
MID-WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-300 BC
The pendant is finely carved in openwork as a pair of addorsed s-shaped dragons joined at their backs below a ruyi motif. Each dragon is carved with a single bi-furcated horn and a curved snout.
4 3⁄4 in. (12.2 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Hong Kong in 1990

Literature

Orientations, May 1995

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Compare a smaller curved pendant carved as a double-headed dragon with an arched body, excavated from tomb no.1 at the Changtai Guan tomb site, Xinyang County, Henan Province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, no. 251 (fig. 1).

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