A PALE YELLOW-GREEN BOTTLE HORN JADE DRAGON PENDANT

細節
A PALE YELLOW-GREEN BOTTLE HORN JADE DRAGON PENDANT
LATE SHANG/WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

Each side of the flat plaque simply carved as a dragon in profile with trapezoidal eye, short bottle horn and bent foreleg, with a conical hole drilled through the coiled tail and a biconical hole drilled through the mouth, the softly polished stone translucent and with some opaque buff calcification, traces of cinnabar--1 5/8 in. (4.2cm.) long, brocade box
來源
Dr. Robert Bloch
出版
Robert Bloch, Jade, Munich, 1979, pl. 24, p. 79 and bottom col. pl. opposite p. 81

拍品專文

Compare the dragon pendant of this type in the Sonnenschein Collection, Salmony, Ancient Chinese Jades, 1952, pl. L (8) and another illustrated in Jade Carving in Chinese Archaeology, vol. 1, pl. LXXIX (2)