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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
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AN ARCHAISTIC CALCIFIED CELADON JADE DRAGON
PENDANT
Eastern Zhou style
Of flattened s-shape and carved as a dragon looking over its back,
the body carved with tight ‘grain’-form coils and the body bifurcated in
various places.
8 1/8in (15.4 cm) long
$2,000 - 3,000
For an Eastern Zhou Dynasty pre-cursor see Max Loehr, Ancient
Chinese Jades from the Greenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard, p. 286 col. pl., no. 423 and p. 290, no. 423
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