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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 戰國晚期 青黃玉卷龍扭絲紋珮
A RARE YELLOWISH-CELADON JADE ‘DRAGON’
PENDANT, 來源：
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD 2000年前購於香港
9.9 cm 展覽：
《金木水火土：香港文物收藏精品展》，香港藝術
PROVENANCE 館，香港，2001-04年
Acquired in Hong Kong prior to 2000.

EXHIBITED
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth: Gems of Antiquities
Collection in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong
Kong, 2001-04.

HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,500-77,000

This unusual and extraordinary jade carving belongs to a
small group of pendants masterfully modelled in the shape of
a dragon with a sinuous body grooved to resemble a twisted
rope. See a closely related example of a dragon pendant in
the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in Handbook of the
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1991. p. 9. Another
similar jade dragon pendant also with a twist-rope design is
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Na Zhiliang,
Yuqi cidian [Dictionary of Chinese Jade], Hong Kong, 1985,
p. 47, fig. 0238. See an excavated example of a phoenix jade
pendant also with a similar rope-twist design, late Warring
States period, currently in the Anhui Provincial Institute of
Archaeology, illustrated in Yang Boda, Zhongguo yuqi quanji
[Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol. 3, Hebei, 2005,
pl. 284.

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