HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

A very similar gilt-bronze tuning key in the form of a coiled dragon from the tomb of the King of Nanyue, is illustrated in Xi Han Nanyue Wang mu (Nanyue King's Tomb of the Western Han), vol. II, pl. 47, nos. 1 and 2; and a full description with line drawing is in voI. I, pp. 92-3. See, also, the gilt-bronze coiled dragon tuning key from the collection of Orvar Karibeck illustrated in “Selected Objects from Ancient Shou-chou," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, No. 27, 1955, pl. 42:4.