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at the bottom, excavated from the ancient city site of the Lu State in Qufu, Shandong province, illustrated in Gu Fang, The
Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2005, pl. 203, together with another set discovered from the same tomb,
suspending a single agate pendant, pl. 204. Another pair of closely related agate pendants, excavated from a Spring and Autumn
period tomb at Jinsheng Village in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, is published in Yang Boda, ed., Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete
collection of Chinese jades], vol. 1, Shijiazhuang, 2005, p. 232, no. 44, where the author notes there is a further pair discovered in a
Eastern Zhou dynasty tomb in Linzi, Shandong province in 1972.

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