LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 300-221 BC

Compare to a similar jade ornament but decorated with comma scrolls on the tube instead, in the Freer Gallery Collection (fig. 1), illustrated in Yuqi tongshi, Voulume 1, Taipei, 1964, pl.no. 83. See also a simialr jade ornament of the late Warrings States peirod, decoarted with a phoenix was excavated from No.2 Yanggong tomb, Changfeng County, Anhui Province, illustrated in The Pictorial Handbook of Ancitent Chinese Jades, Beijing, 2017, p.206, top left.