MID TO LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-220 BC

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AN IMPORTANT JADE OPENWORK ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ PENDANT, HUANG

MID TO LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 400-220 BC
The pendant is well-carved and pierced as a pair of dragons, serpent-like juvenile dragons, chihui, and phoenixes, all within a fine border decorated with scrolls and fine grid-pattern. There are two drilled holes along the bottom side of the arc.
4 5⁄8 in. (11.8 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Jinhuatang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1998

Literature

Teng Shu-ping, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, no. 161

Exhibited

National Palace Museum, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, no. 161

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Lot Essay

The dragon on the current jade huang has long scrolling snout, which can be found on other jade ornaments of the Warring States period. See one jade kui dragon pendant excavated from Changtaiguan no.1 tomb, Xinyang County, Henan Province, now in the National Museum of China, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, Volume 1, Shijiazhuang, 2005, pl.no.251.

There is a semicircle in-between the two dragons on the arc, which suggest the jade may designed for suspension. The two holes along the bottom side may have been drilled to connect to other jade ornaments.

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