WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

A similar glass cicada wrapped in silver foil was unearthed from a Han dynasty tomb in Hanjiang, Yangzhou city, illustrated in Jade Wares of Guangling in Han Dynasty, Beijing, 2003, pl. 138 (fig. 1). There are two other similar glass cicadas in the Aurora Museum Collection, illustrated in Jades of Han Dynasty, Taipei, 2005, pl. 214.