White jade carved dragon wearing peony hat top

[White jade carved dragon wearing peony hat top]

6.8 cm in length, 5.8 cm in width, 7.2 cm in height
White jade, oval at the bottom, the whole device is carved with multiple layers of dragon wearing peony patterns, and the dragon head is placed on the top of the device, with open mouth and double corners. The dragon body is surrounded by peony flowers. The surface is polished, but the carved part is rarely polished
According to scholars’ research, the use of this kind of jade ware should be the hat top of the Yuan Dynasty. Shen Defu of the Ming Dynasty, in his “Wild Harvest Collection”, believed that the princes and nobles of the Yuan Dynasty all wore big hats, and this was the hat top of the big hat. In the Ming Dynasty, when the clothes were changed, the hat top was moved to the furnace cover and became the furnace top