WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, C. 1100 – 771 BC

For a similar jade pendants and carvings from the Western Zhou dynasty, compare a cicada-form pendant unearthed from Jiyang, Shandong province, and the Yu State tomb complex site at Baoji City, Shaanxi province. See an example excavated from Jiyang and illustrated in Zhongguo gudai duandai yu bianwei – 2 – guyu dongwu yu shenyishou, Beijing, 2007, p. 33, no. 25; a stag-form carving with a more rounded torso in the Zhouyuan Museum, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Zhouyuan yuqi, Taipei, 1996, p. 101, no. 68; and a rabbit-form pendant excavated from tomb no. 49, Shagguo, Wenxi county, Shanxi province, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2005, p. 153.