A JADE DRAGON-HUMAN FORM PENDANT

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY. C. 1100-771 BC

Details

A JADE DRAGON-HUMAN FORM PENDANT
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY. C. 1100-771 BC
The pendant is finely carved as a crouching humanoid figure shown in profile, with the legs drawn up beneath the coiled dragon which forms the arms and trunk of the body. It is carved at one end with a human head depicted with upswept hair and carved below with a dragon head. The surface has signs of alteration.
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1995

Literature

Orientations, November 1995

Lot Essay

For similar dragon-huaman form pendant, compare to a smaller on in the British Museum (6.5 cm.), illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Chinese Archaic Jades in the British Museum, London, 1951, pl. XXXVIII; and another smaller pendant (5.9 cm.) excavated from tomb 2011 of the Western Zhou Guo Kingdom complex at Sanmenxia, Henan province, illustrated in The Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades, Beijing, 2007, p. 142

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