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二 25. Openwork double buckle joined by a ring, carved on each section with a chilong dragon amongst ruyi-head scrolls, one dragon with a

十 single horn, the other with a flowing mane, each with a ridged spine, bifid tail and hairwork to the edges of the legs, the central ring

五 with a high relief chilong dragon roundel, the stone white with russet markings.

3 ⅛ inches, 8 cm long.
鏤 Yuan/Ming dynasty, 14th/15th century.
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螭 • From the collection of the Honourable Judge Edgar Bromberger (1889-1956). In 1951, Judge Edgar Bromberger gifted
紋 the Metropolitan Museum of Art the large porcelain Yuan Dynasty seated Bodhisattva in memory of his mother, Augusta
带 Bromberger, and it is illustrated by Suzanne G. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, no. 120, pp. 126/7.
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• A similar piece, dated to the Yuan Dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated by Roger Keverne in Jade, fig. 14, p.

白 134; another, also dated to the Yuan Dynasty, is illustrated by Yang Boda in Zhong Guo Yu Qi Quanji, ‘Collection of Chinese
玉 Jade’, Vol. 5, no. 171, p. 113; another example from the Qing Dynasty, with dragon and phoenix, is illustrated by Zhao Gui

Ling in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, Vol. 9, Qing Dynasty, Gu Gong Inventory no. Xin 176285, no.

元 216, p. 214.
/ • A double belt buckle with two chilong dragons, dated to the Ming Dynasty, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is
明 illustrated by James C. S. Lin in The Immortal Stone, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic Period to the Twentieth Century,

初 no. 69a & b, pp. 76/7.

Edgar Bromberger

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