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44.
AN OLIVE GREEN JADE DRAGON FORM PENDANT
Late Shang/ early Western Zhou Dynasty, circa 11th Century B.C.
carved as the silhouette of a dragon shown in profile with large head, hooked tail and short leg, the flat plaque decorated on each side with linked angular scroll motifs on the body and a large eye below the blunt horn, drilled through the mouth for stringing, the translucent pale olive green jade showing cloudy surface alteration on one side of the head, and with remains of earth and cinnabar.
Length 2 11⁄16 inches (6.8 cm)
A jade dragon pendant of similar form and design discovered in the Shang dynasty tomb of Fu Hao (d. circa 1200), at Anyang, Henan province, now in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 5, Henan, Beijing, 2005, p. 38.
Compare also the jade pendant excavated from the site of the Western Zhou cemetery of the Guo State at Sanmenxia, Henan province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1995, No. 1, p. 13, col. pl. 4 and p. 24, pl. 55-4.
商晚期 / 西周早期 龍形玉珮 長 6.8 厘米
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44.
AN OLIVE GREEN JADE DRAGON FORM PENDANT
Late Shang/ early Western Zhou Dynasty, circa 11th Century B.C.
Length 2 11⁄16 inches (6.8 cm)