Chinese Jades from the Xianquxuan Collection
Chinese Jades from the Xianquxuan Collection
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A set of three archaic jade 'dragon' pendants
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period
東周春秋 蟠虺紋虎紋璜兩件 及 虎紋墜飾一件
largest l. 8.3 cm
Ku Ngar Antique Limited, Hong Kong, 10th November 2000.
古雅閣,香港,2000年11月10日
The beast heads on the two ends of the huang pendent is a common motif found on Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou objects. The identity of the beast remains unknown today, some believe it is a dragon, and some say tiger. Huang pendants of this form and pattern design seem to have been produced since the Spring and Autumn period. Compare a set of huang pendants excavated from the tomb of Zhao Qin of the Spring and Autumn period in Jinsheng, Luoyang, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], Shijiazhuang, 2005, vol. 3, pl. 32-34. Huang pendants of similar type were also popular in the Warring States period, see two examples in the Zhejiang Antique Archaeology Institute, published in ibid., pl. 193.
三件同屬於一套。長短二璜左右皆成虎首,方鼻上卷,齒牙凌利,毛髮虎斑以細線勾勒成細綯,全身淺浮雕隱起蟠虺紋,墜飾上下穿孔,虎首上下俯仰,亦飾細綯勾雲紋,外緣皆出齒脊。
璜左右之獸首或云龍或云虎,兩周常見,尚無定論。此類璜出齒脊,左右獸首,全身隱起勾雲紋狀蟠虺,春秋以來似有定制。洛陽金勝村春秋趙卿墓出土一套多件類似玉璜,可比較之,見《中國玉器全集》,石家莊,2005年,卷3,圖版32至34。戰國時期亦頗常見同類玉璜,如浙江省文物考古研究所藏兩件玉璜,與本套如出一轍,見前書,圖版193。