A jade ‘dragon’ pendant, xi, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period | 東周戰國　玉龍首觿

Collection of T.T. Tsui (1940-2010), Hong Kong.

This unusual jade pendant belongs to a small group of Warring States jade carving masterfully modelled in the shape of a dragon with a sinuous body grooved to resemble a twisted rope. See a closely related example of a phoenix jade pendant also with a similar rope-twist design, late Warring States period, currently in the Anhui Provincial Institute of Archaeology, illustrated in Yang Boda, Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol.1, Hebei, 2005, pl. 284.

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徐展堂（1940-2010年）收藏，香港

參看類似的一件戰國晚期鳳首觿，亦為扭絲紋裝飾，現存安徽省文物考古研究所，著錄於楊伯達，《中國玉器全集（上）》，河北，2005年，編號284。