Pendant
CultureChinese
DateEastern Zhou (770-256 B.C.E.)-Warring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
MediumJade (nephrite)
DimensionsOverall: 1 × 2 3/8 × 3/16 inches (2.54 × 6.03 × 0.48 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-56
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionTwo hornless dragons (ch'ih lung), with a head at both ends of the bodies. Light yellowish white color.Gallery LabelA material that was durable and valued, jade was frequently handed down for generations, centuries or even millennia, before being buried in a tomb. Although these pendants were made at different times, it would have been quite possible for them to have been strung in the manner that they are displayed here, for use as a pectoral, or chest ornament.
Purchased on the Chinese art market, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934 [1].
NOTES:
[1] This object is included on a list of objects received from Sickman by the Nelson-Atkins on May 3, 1934. Nelson-Atkins Archives, Sickman Miscellaneous, box 3, Receipts - 1934.
Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China (Berkeley, California: Gillick, 1938), 60, Pl. XLV, no. 1 (repro.).
Sueji Umehara, Shina Kogyoku Zuroku (Kyoto: Kuwana Bunseido, Showa 30, 1955), pl. VIII (repro.).
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