A calcified jade 'dragon' pendant, Late Warring States period - early Western Han dynasty | 戰國晚期至西漢早期　雙龍首玉珩

Tiffany Chen, Selected Works of Jade, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2003, pl. 150.

Sun Qingwei, Jades of Warring States Period, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2023, pl. 76. 

Well worked with each end of the arc to depict a dragon’s end, the pendant is particularly notable for the superb openwork rendering of the stylised phoenix motifs seen along the curved arc, including the central pair flanking the suspension hole and portrayed with elongated tails extending onto the main arc of the pendant. See a similar Warring States period jade ‘dragon’ pendant with openwork designs, excavated at Linzi in Shandong, and now preserved in Zibo Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji/The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2005, vol. 4, pl. 192, and another late Warring States period example formerly from the Chang Wei-Hwa collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3rd December 2021, lot 2739.

出版

陳臻儀，《古玉選粹》，震旦藝術博物館，台北，2003年，圖版150

孫慶偉，《戰國玉器》，震旦藝術博物館，台北，2023年，圖版76

此玉珩兩端雕作龍首，工藝精細；弧面尤以鏤空呈現的抽象鳳鳥紋最為引人注目，包括位於佩戴孔兩側的一對鳳鳥，其長尾舒展，沿弧面延伸至佩飾主體，造型優雅而富動感。可參考一件出土於山東臨淄、現藏淄博博物館的戰國玉龍一例，鏤空紋飾相近，著錄於《中國出土玉器全集》，北京，2005年，卷4，圖版192。另參考一件曾屬張偉華舊藏的戰國晚期玉璜，售於香港佳士得2021年12月3日，編號2739。