WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

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A WHITE JADE C-SHAPED ‘DRAGON’ PENDANT
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
The pendant is carved in the form of a dragon with a coiled C-shaped body, the inner curve reticulated with a small chilong.
4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang, acquired in Taipei in 1994

Literature

Orientations, November 1993

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Lot Essay

Compare to a white jade C-shaped dragon pendant with more simplistic carvings, unearthed from a Han dynasty tomb in Sanjiaowei in Anhui province, illustrated in Jade in Han Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 74 (fig. 1).

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