WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC

This unusually large jade dragon pendant can be compared to other Warring States examples with similar backward-turned heads and scrolling bodies carved with scrolls, such as a pair of smaller size (28 cm.) from Hebei province, and three further examples of smaller size (ranging from 6.2 cm. to 22 cm.) from Huaiyang county, Henan province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 3, Hebei, 1993, nos. 260 and 274-76, respectively. All of these pendants have a small suspension hole below the upper edge of the curved body indicating their orientation when suspended.