Lot Essay
Compare two other jade reticulated ‘dragon and phoenix’ pendants, one in the Aurora Art Museum Collection, illustrated in Jades of Warring States Period, Taipei, 2007, no. 89, which is also carved with two phoenix at the tail; and another with a single phoenix at the tail, 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 (fig. 1).