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A JADE DRAGON-HUMAN FORM 西周 玉人龍紋珮
PENDANT 來源
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, C. 1100-771 BC 藍田山房舊藏，1995 年購於台北
The pendant is finely carved as a crouching humanoid figure
shown in profile, with the legs drawn up beneath the coiled 出版
dragon which forms the arms and trunk of the body. It is carved at 《Orientations》，1995 年 11 月
one end with a human head depicted with upswept hair and carved 玉器上人像的上下肢與頭頂處飾有捲曲的龍、虎、馬等神靈動物，為
below with a dragon head. The surface has signs of alteration. 西周所獨有。相似造型例可參考大英博物館藏一件，見 Soame Jenyns
3 ¡ in. (8.6 cm.) long, box
著《Chinese Archaic Jades in the British Museum》，London, 1951,
HK$80,000-120,000 US$11,000-16,000 pl.XXXVIII; 一件出土於三門峽虢國墓 2011 號的例子，見《中國古玉器
圖典》，北京，2007 年，頁 142。
PROVENANCE
Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1995

LITERATURE
Orientations, November 1995
For similar dragon-huaman form pendant, compare to a smaller on
in the British Museum (6.5 cm.), illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Chinese
Archaic Jades in the British Museum, London, 1951, pl. XXXVIII; and
another smaller pendant (5.9 cm.) excavated from tomb 2011 of the
Western Zhou Guo Kingdom complex at Sanmenxia, Henan province,
illustrated in The Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades, Beijing,
2007, p. 142

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