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A VERY RARE JADE FIGURAL DRAGON PENDANT
Western Zhou Dynasty
The flat plaque finely carved in openwork and well-defined double
outlines as a crouching humanoid figure shown in profile, encircled
by three dragon heads facing in different directions, the first at the
top of the human face, the second forming the arms and trunk of the
human body and the third behind the human leg, each depicted with
a diamond-shaped eye below an angular forehead and a pointed ear,
the semi-translucent stone of a pale green tone suffused with buff
inclusions, finished to a lustrous polish.
15.6cm (6in) long

HK$80,000 - 120,000
US$10,000 - 15,000

西周 人龍形玉佩

Provenance:
The Sze Yuan Tang Collection

來源：
思源堂收藏

A similar but smaller jade pendant of a hybrid configuration of human
and dragon, Western Zhou dynasty, was excavated from Tomb no.63
in the cemetery of the Marquis of the State of Jin in Shanxi Province,
in the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, see Gu Fang, The
Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol.3, Beijing, 2010,
p.116. Another similar example excavated from the same tomb, in the
Shanghai Museum, is illustrated by J.F.So in Chinese Jades from the
Cissy and Robert Tang Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, p.97, fig.14.1.

此類人龍形玉佩為西周裝飾用玉，此件玉佩與同類器相比，尺寸較
大。對比山西省曲沃縣晉侯墓地63號墓出土一件人龍形玉佩，現藏
山西省考古研究所，見《中國出土玉器全集3》，北京，2010年，
頁116；另見同墓地出土一件人龍形玉佩，現藏上海博物館，著錄於
J.F.So，《Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection》
，香港，2015年，頁97，圖14.1。

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