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A QIN-STYLE JADE OPENWORK
ORNAMENT
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD,
CIRCA 570-476 BC
The flat jade ornament is carved with two pairs of dragons with
long snouts pointing upward and lower jaws resting on the necks
of the adjacent dragon, protruding from the sides of the square,
highlighted by the delicately incisied detail.
2À/”ÿ in. (5.5 cm.) wide, box
HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000
fig. 1
PROVENANCE 圖一
The Yangdetang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1988

Compare to a late Spring and Autumn period jade plaque carved with
similar decorative motif excavated from Qingong no.1 tomb, Nan zhihui
Village, Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province, illustrated in Shaanxi chutu
dongzhou yuqi, Beijing, 2006, pp. 82-83, pl. FN32 (fig. 1).

春秋晚期 秦式龍紋鏤空玉牌

來源
養德堂舊藏，1988 年購於台北
此器玉質溫潤，方形扁體，有殘缺，底部平齊，右方和上方兩邊鏤雕出
直折線形孔，邊緣鏤雕出「八」字形缺口，形成齒稜；左下方方形臺面
底部向上刻有深槽，槽邊有二個三角形鏤雕透孔。通體細線陰刻相互勾
連的龍首紋兩面刻紋基本相同，為典型春秋晚期秦式玉器。
此器與 1986 年陝西鳳翔縣南指揮村秦公一號大墓出土的春秋晚期秦式龍
紋長方形突齒鏤空玉珮相類，且更為完整，可參閱 2006 年劉雲輝編著的
《陝西出土東周玉器》82、83 頁，圖 FN32（圖一）。

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