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A GROUP OF FOUR ‘DRAGON’
JADE ORNAMENTS
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
The lot comprises a black and white jade dragon-form pendant,
carved with comma spirals on both sides, mid Warring States
period; a celadon jade pendant carved as an arc-shaped dragon in
profile with an upturned tail, Warring States period; a greenish-
whit jade dragon-form pendant with an arc-shaped body, long
snout and coiled tail, with an raised ridge to the middle of its body,
mid Warring States period; and a jade ‘double-dragon’ pendant
carved on either end with a single-horned dragon coiling its body
backwards on the arch with one of its legs forming the terminal,
carved with comma spirals and cloud scrolls on one side.

Longest: 7¬ in. (19 cm.) long, boxes (4)

HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000

PROVENANCE
1. Dexinshuwu Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1995
2. Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1992
3, 4. The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1990
Compare with a similar reticulated arched pendant with a back-turned
dragon on one terminal and tail on the other, excavated from tomb no.
1 of the King of Zhongshan tomb site, Pingshan County, Hebei Province,
illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period, Hebei,
1993, no. 239.

戰國 龍紋玉飾四件
來源
1. 德馨書屋舊藏，1995年購於台北
2. 藍田山房舊藏，1992年購於台北
3, 4. 養德堂舊藏，1990年購於台北

參閱河北省平山縣中山國一號墓出土一件同期相似
但為單龍造型的玉珮，見《中國玉器全集-3-春秋 戰國》，
河北，1993年，圖版239號。

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