Period:Western Zhou dynasty Production date:1050BC-221BC
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:polished, incised, drilled, bevelled,
Subjects:dragon (?)
Dimensions:Length: 12.70 centimetres Width: 3.70 centimetres
Description:
Dragon huang of dark olive green semi-translucent jade with brown mottling with soft polish with traces of cinnabar.
IMG
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Comments:This flat curved segment is decorated with double-line incisions of inter-locking angular spirals with notches at either end and centre of the upper edge. The two ends are slashed to give the appearance of mouths of the stylised dragons. Two small perforations are drilled at the lower part of the slash with a large slanting perforation near the top left edge. The lower edge has a sloping ridge and the reverse side is undecorated although one end is bevelled. Traces of fabric imprint can also be seen. Western Zhou. See Rawson 1995, pp.265-266, cat.no.17.4. This huang may have been cut from a ring of jade. While the outer edge is vertical, apart from notches at the two ends and a pair at the centre, the shorter inner edge is both bevelled and sloping, which suggests that the jade was formerly part of something else. In addition, a large, asymmetrically located hole makes no sense with respect to the huang and was presumably relevant to a different jade type altogether. The fact that the jade has been reused in this way testifies to its high value and the comparative scarcity of the material at this and many other times.The notches at the two ends and the small cuts below them form stylised animal heads. Small perforations are drilled in the mouths of these animals. Across the surface of the arc are interlocking angular scrolls executed in pairs of incised lines with small comma-like ends. The other sides of the arc is undecorated, with one end bevelled. There are traces of fabric imprint. As the holes are at the two ends of the arc and not at the centre, the pendant must have been suspended from these points and not from the centre. This was the usual practice from the late Neolithic to the Western Zhou
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:polished, incised, drilled, bevelled,
Subjects:dragon (?)
Dimensions:Length: 12.70 centimetres Width: 3.70 centimetres
Description:
Dragon huang of dark olive green semi-translucent jade with brown mottling with soft polish with traces of cinnabar.
IMG
Comments:This flat curved segment is decorated with double-line incisions of inter-locking angular spirals with notches at either end and centre of the upper edge. The two ends are slashed to give the appearance of mouths of the stylised dragons. Two small perforations are drilled at the lower part of the slash with a large slanting perforation near the top left edge. The lower edge has a sloping ridge and the reverse side is undecorated although one end is bevelled. Traces of fabric imprint can also be seen. Western Zhou. See Rawson 1995, pp.265-266, cat.no.17.4. This huang may have been cut from a ring of jade. While the outer edge is vertical, apart from notches at the two ends and a pair at the centre, the shorter inner edge is both bevelled and sloping, which suggests that the jade was formerly part of something else. In addition, a large, asymmetrically located hole makes no sense with respect to the huang and was presumably relevant to a different jade type altogether. The fact that the jade has been reused in this way testifies to its high value and the comparative scarcity of the material at this and many other times.The notches at the two ends and the small cuts below them form stylised animal heads. Small perforations are drilled in the mouths of these animals. Across the surface of the arc are interlocking angular scrolls executed in pairs of incised lines with small comma-like ends. The other sides of the arc is undecorated, with one end bevelled. There are traces of fabric imprint. As the holes are at the two ends of the arc and not at the centre, the pendant must have been suspended from these points and not from the centre. This was the usual practice from the late Neolithic to the Western Zhou
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