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TWO JADE ‘DOUBLE-
DRAGON’ PENDANTS
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN
PERIOD, CIRCA 570-476 BC
The lot comprises a jade arc-shaped
‘dragon'pendant, huang, with serrated edges
and carved with comma spirals on both sides
depicting two dragons with a conjoined body
and their heads on either end; and a semi-circle
‘dragon’ pendant, heng, with serrated edges
andcarved with c-scrolls and comma spirals on
both sides depicting abstract dragons.
Huang: 4¿ in. (10.3 cm.) long, box
Heng: 4√ in. (12.5 cm.) long, box
(2)
HK$160,000-250,000
US$21,000-32,000
PROVENANCE
Huang: The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in
Taipei in 1989
Heng: The Yangdetang Collection, acquired
before 1999 from E Yuan Tang Chinese Art,
Taipei
For a similar ‘double-dragon’ huang, see an example
excavated from tomb no. 1 at Hougudui tomb
site, Gushi County, Henan Province, illustrated in
Zhongguo yuqi quanji-3-Spring Autumn Period,
Hebei, 1993, no. 127. For a similar heng, see an
example illustrated in Jades of Warring States Period,
Taipei, 2007, no. 50.
春秋晚期 雙龍首玉璜及龍紋玉珩各一
來源
璜:養德堂舊藏,1989 年購於台北
珩:養德堂舊藏,1999 年前購於台北一言堂
比較河南省固始縣侯古堆一號墓出土一件風格類似的
雙龍玉璜,見《中國玉器全集-3-春秋 戰國》,河北,
1993 年,圖版 127 號。另參閱一件近似的龍紋珩,載
於《戰國玉器》,台北,2007 年,圖版 50 號。
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