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The unusual motif on this ornament, depicting two human faces with 本器兩端雕相向的側面人頭，身體則呈龍狀，互相交纏，紋飾獨特罕
intertwining dragon bodies, can be found on a small number of Western 見。類似紋飾可見於少數西周玉器，最接近例子為北京故宮博物院藏一
Zhou jade pieces. The closest example is a jade huang with similar 件龍紋璜，見1993年石家莊出版《中國玉器全集-2-商．西周》，圖版
human-dragon motifs in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in 292號。院方另藏一件柄形玉器，上雕一人頭龍身圖案，見同上，圖版
Zhongguo yuqi quanji 2- Shang & Western Zhou, Shijiazhuang, 1993, 280號。養德堂另藏一件紋飾相似的帶白沁璜，著錄於鄧淑蘋著，1999年
pl. 292. A rectangular jade handled-shaped ornament, in the Palace 國立故宮博物院出版《羣玉別藏續集》，圖版129號。亦可參考山東滕縣
Museum Collection, bears a similar single human-dragon motif, and is 出土的人面紋璜，定年西周早期，上雕雙龍交錯紋飾，龍首毛髮的表現
illustrated ibid, pl. 280. The Yangdetang Collection also has another 手法與本器相近，著錄於1986年北京出版《中國美術全集-9-玉器》，
very similar but more calcified jade huang, illustrated in Teng Shu-p’ing, 圖版83號。
Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, National Palace Museum,
Taipei, 1999, pl. 129. Compare also to a jade huang depicting two
intertwining dragons with very similar combed hair, dating to the early
Western Zhou period and excavated in Tengxian in Shandong province,
illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji -9- yuqi, Beijing, 1986, pl. 83.

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