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A JADE ORNAMENT WITH ENTWINED HUMAN HEADS AND DRAGONS DESIGN
Western Zhou Dynasty (1027 – 771 B.C.)
the thick plaque of irregular outline, finely incised on the rounded front with two dragon heads and two human heads rising from serpentine bodies entwined around a central piercing, the reverse plain, with remains of cinnabar filling the incised lines in contrast with the pale olive green jade.
Length 2 1⁄4 inches (5.8 cm)
A similar jade ornament discovered in a Western Zhou burial site at Huangdui village, Fufeng county, Baoji prefecture, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in the excavation report in Wenwu, 1986, No. 8, fig. 34, with an ink rubbing on p. 63, no. 27. The same pendant is illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 14, Shaanxi, Beijing, 2005, p. 75.
西周 人首龍紋玉珮 長 5.8 厘米
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46.
A JADE ORNAMENT WITH ENTWINED HUMAN HEADS AND DRAGONS DESIGN
Western Zhou Dynasty (1027 – 771 B.C.)
Length 2 1⁄4 inches (5.8 cm)