A white jade 'dragon' pendant, heng, Early Western Zhou dynasty | 西周早期　玉龍紋珩

Tiffany Chen, Selected Works of Jade, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2003, pl. 65.

Tsai Ching-Liang, Jades of Shang Dynasty, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2010, pl. 82.

A similar late Shang dynasty jade ‘dragon’ pendant, also depicted a wide, open mouth and 

eyes in the shape of the chen character (臣) centred with a big round iris, but further pierced with a suspension hole, excavated at Qianzhangda site in Shandong, and preserved in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji/The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2005, vol. 4, pl. 162. 

出版

陳臻儀，《古玉選粹》，震旦藝術博物館，台北，2003年，圖版65

蔡慶良，《商代玉器》，震旦藝術博物館，台北，2010年，圖版82

參考一相類商代晚期玉「龍」形飾，同樣作大張口狀，飾「臣」字目，中雕大圓眼珠，然帶一穿孔。該例出土於山東前掌大遺址，現藏於中國社會科學院考古研究所，載於《中國出土玉器全集》，北京，2005年，卷4，圖版162。