TWO PAIRS OF JADE ORNAMENTS

EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 770-670 BC

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TWO PAIRS OF JADE ORNAMENTS
EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 770-670 BC
The lot comprises a pair of pale celadon flattened jade split-disc ornaments, jue, each incised on one side with a double-headed dragon; and a pair of small pale celadon jade ornaments each carved in the form of a single-horned coiled dragon pierced with three suspension holes.
Slit-disc ornaments: each 1 1⁄2 in. (3.8 cm.) diam., boxes

Provenance

The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1990

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Lot Essay

Compare a ssmall slit-disc also incised with a double-headed dragon excavated from tomb no. 55 at the Shangguo tomb site, Wenxi County, Shanxi Province, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji - 3- Shanxi, Beijing, 2005, no. 161.

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