LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC

Jades in the form of the character Ya「亞」were popular during the late Western Zhou to early Spring and Autumn period. Compare to jade ornaments of similar form and decoration excavated from Qingong tomb no.1, Nan zhihui Village, Fengxiang County, Shaanxi County, illustrated in Shaanxi chutu dongzhou yuqi, Beijing, 2006, pls. FN69 (fig. 1) , FN72.

A Western Han jade pillow (fig. 2) excavated from Chu tomb, Shizishan, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, now in the Xuzhou Museum Collection, has thirty-five jade ornaments of this shape decorated on the surface.