A PAIR OF LARGE GREYISH-GREEN JADE `DRAGON` PENDANTS

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Los 705 | A PAIR OF LARGE GREYISH-GREEN JADE 'DRAGON' PENDANTS
A PAIR OF LARGE GREYISH-GREEN JADE 'DRAGON' PENDANTS

LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY BC

Cut from the same boulder, each flat plaque is in the shape of a dragon with backward-turned head, arched S-form body, and bifurcated tail, and delineated on both sides with incised lines following the outline of the body and carved in shallow relief in the center of the body with comma spirals, all below a single hole for suspension. The semi-translucent stone is of mottled, greyish olive-green color.

8 1/4 and 8 in. (20.9 and 20.3 cm.) long, metal stand





Provenance

David David-Weill (1871-1952) Collection, Paris.

Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York, September 1955.

Myron S. (1906-1992) and Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000) Collection, New York.

The Falk Collection I; Christie's New York, 16 October 2001, lot 205.



Literature

University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Chinese Jade, Philadelphia, 1963, no. 144.

J. Fontein and Tung Wu, Unearthing China's Past, Boston, 1973, p. 86, no. 34.



Exhibited

Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Chinese Jade, 1963.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Unearthing China's Past, 1973.

Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 2001-2022.

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