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95. A Jade Dragon Plaque F ragment
Warring States Period, 5th–4th Century B.C.
boldly carved in profile and fully detailed on both sides, the head with blunt horn, large staring
eyes, open jaws and incised teeth, the body with raised comma-spirals and fine linear details, the
surface polished to a high gloss all over, the translucent stone of pale green and olive tone.
Length 3¾ inches (9.3 cm)

Ex Eskenazi, Ltd., London, acquired October, 1991
Compare the pair of large jade tiger plaques in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated by Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States
Period: Change and Continuity, 480–222 B.C., Washington, D.C., 1982, p. 149, no. 96.
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96. An Archaic Jade Disc ( Bi )

Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 4th–3rd Century B.C.
well carved on both sides with raised comma-spiral shape ‘sprouting grain’ motifs within narrow
plain wedge-shaped borders, the pale green translucent stone with a band of dark brown shading
to creamy tan color, the surface highly polished.

Diameter 2¾ inches (7.1 cm)
Compare the similar jade disc in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cangpin daxi:
yuqi bian (Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade), Vol. 3, Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period,
Beijing, 2011, p. 93, no. 89.

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