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

MID-LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-221 BC

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A JADE RETICULATED 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' PENDANT
MID-LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-221 BC
The arched pendant is carved in openwork as a sinuous dragon with backward-turned head and coiled tail transforming into a phoenix adjacent to a smaller phoenix.
6 1⁄8 in. (15.4 cm.) long, box
Provenance
Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Hong Kong in 1991

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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).

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