LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

细节

A PALE CELADON JADE ‘DOUBLE-DRAGON’ PENDANT, HUANG

LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The flat arching pendant is carved on both sides with a dragon’s head on either end with bodies intertwined and incised with double-line angular details. Each end is pierced with a tiny hole. The stone is of a pale celadon colour with areas of white alteration.
2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm.) wide, box

来源

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1991

拍品专文

Compare to two wider ‘double-dragon’ huang pendants with double-line triangular pattern excavated from the tomb of the Shang queen Fu Hao at Yinxu, Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in The Jades from Yinxu, Beijing, 1981, no. 11 (935, 345); and a Western Zhou ‘double-dragon’ huang pendant with similar double-line angular details, illustrated in An Exhibition of Chinese Archaic Jades: Arranged for National Gallery of Art, 1950, Florida, pl. XXIX, no. 2

LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

拍品专文

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