Jade huang pendant

A calcified opaque greyish-white jade huang, the curved double-sided pendant terminating with two dragon heads carved in relief, with pierced suspension holes defining the mouths within thin rope-twist bands forming the collars and edges of the mouths, the main body also carved in relief with C-scrolls, drilled circles and incised hooks with a further small suspension hole to the centre of the top.

China: Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE).

Purchased from Galaxie Art & Gift Co., Hong Kong, on 23 September 1986.

Published: Morgan, Naturalism & Archaism: Chinese Jades from the Kirknorton Collection, no. 1.

For a similar jade huang from the Spring and Autumn period, see The Palace Museum (ed.), Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, Vol. 3, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, p. 39, no. 19; for a similar Han dynasty opaque jade huang, see Lam (ed.), Jades from the Tomb of the King of Nanyue, no. 181; for two opaque jade huangs, see Deng (ed.), Jintian Gewu: Zhongguo Lidai Yuqi Daodu (Respect for Heaven and Objects: A Guide to Chinese Jade Articles in Past Dynasties), p. 83, figs. 5-5-12 & 5-5-13; for three jade Spring and Autumn period huangs, see The Palace Museum (ed.), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (I), pp. 131-34, nos. 109, 110 & 111; another in a similar stone dated 6th-5th century BCE in De Bisscop, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, p. 47, no. 16; a closely related Spring and Autumn period huang in a similar stone is in Teng Shu P’ing, One Hundred Jades from the Lantien Shanfang Collection, pp. 186-87, pl. 55; and another in Queensland Art Gallery, Treasures from the Shanghai Museum, p. 96, no. 43.

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