WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC- AD 8)

This fine pendant is carved with two conjoined dragons with their heads turning towards the centre. It is particularly finely detailed and decorated, with well-defined features and a lustrous polish. This type of pendants was popular in the Warring States period. Compare an example from the Yanggongxiang tomb now in the Beijing Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Jadeware (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 169, no. 140 (Fig. 1).