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Jade. China, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 4th cent. BC
This jade presents a very specific type, flat on both sides and, as a rule, of strong green jade. The depiction of the dragon is outstanding through its powerful defined coils, sharp hook-shaped appendages and design of the head. Horn and snout are expansively flared in opposite directions, the chin and lower jaw in one motion are also hook-shaped. Especially noteworthy are the finely engraved, decoratively spirited lines and, in contrast, the rather sedate pattern of spirals (clouds). On one side is an exact, straight, transverse step in the tail area, which is frequently to be found in this type. Small, conically drilled eyelets for use as a pendant, while this jade more often functioned as a burial object. In backlighting, a beautiful spinach-green tone emerges, partly tending to be yellowish. Many remains of red-brown soil, although not encrusted but rather in a very fine surface coating. 龙形玉佩 – 东周, 公元前4世纪 长 8,3 厘米; 最宽 14 厘米
LENGTH 8,3 CM, WIDTH 14 CM
From an Austrian-Hungarian collection
Accompanying this jade, is an expertise by Univ. Prof. Dr. Filippo Salviati. Also from him, is the following information about comparative examples from publicized excavations or offered from specialist literature: Comparable pieces from a funerary context are those discovered in 1976 in the Han period tombs at Guangling, Yangzhou, Zhejiang Province, published in Yangzhou Museum, Han Guangling guo yuqi (Jade Wares of Guangling, Han Dynasty), Wenwu Chubanshe, Beijing 2003, nos. 83 and 84. Another comparable piece is represented by the dragon plaque in the Freer/Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC, which are reputed to come from Changsha, Hunan Province (acc. no. 17.372, reproduced in Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Change and Continuity, 480-221 BC, Washington, DC, 1982, no.101). See also the pair of plaques from Zacke Gallery published in Archaische und antike jaden aus China, Teil 3, June 2011, Zacke, Vienna, no.14.