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90. An Archaic Jade Openwork Long P endant
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, circa 5th–4th Century B.C.
of flattened form, pierced and carved with pairs of beaked and winged dragons projecting from the
long borders of the oblong center panel carved on both sides with a lively pattern of raised comma
shape scroll motifs within raised borders, drilled with a longitudinal channel for stringing, the
translucent yellowish green stone with glossy surface showing traces of cinnabar red.

Length 3 ⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)
3
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 81

A similar jade openwork long pendant of smaller size in the collection of the British Museum is illustrated by Rawson and
Ayers, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, London, 1975, no. 133, with description on p. 54.
Compare the smaller jade pendant of related form unearthed from a Warring States tomb at Yanggongxiang, Chengfeng
county, Anhui province, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji (The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum), Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 177, no. 147.
Compare also the two smaller jade pendants of related form excavated from tomb no. 1 at Shangwangcun, Linzi, Shandong
province, now in the Zibo Museum, illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades
Unearthed in China), Vol. 4, Shandong, Beijing, 2005, p. 193.

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