A JADE 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' PENDANT
A JADE 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' PENDANT

LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 300-221 BC

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A JADE 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' PENDANT
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 300-221 BC
The arched pendant is carved as a sinuous dragon with backward-turned head and tail transforming into a phoenix, with comma spirals carved in relief on both sides and a suspension hole pierced close to the centre.
6 3⁄8 in. (16.3 cm.) long, box
Provenance
Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1998

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Ruben Lien (連懷恩)
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Lot Essay

For a more elaborate pendant but similarly carved pendant with dragon and phoenix, see an example excavated from tomb no. 8 of the Yanggong tomb site at Changfeng County, Anhui Province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei, 1993, no. 293.

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