comprising a pale mottled grey jade hairpin with a tapering elongated body ending with a pointed tip, the opposite end depicting a dragon head; a mottled grey jade earring worked in the form of two lotus buds borne on an undulating stem; a pale celadon ‘fish’ earring with a tapering curved ‘hook’; and a calcified earring with a small boss to the front and a mock disc suspending from the ring, possibly an abstract modelling after Makala-form prototypes

The calcified earring belongs to a group of earrings popular among the Qidan. Metal and jade earrings of this form have been excavated from Liao tombs and preserved in various collections; see for examples Noble Riders from Pines and Deserts: The Artistic Legacy of the Qidan, Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2004, cat. nos. IV:2-3. Lo Kwan Chi suggested in the catalogue that these types of earrings appeared to have entered the Liao territory via southern Russia or Mongolia, p. 154. Other scholars suggested that it was a stylised Makala-form earring, figs. 105-105 and p. 108.

On the other hand, the grey jade ‘lotus’ ornament might also have been worn horizontally like a hairpin. See a celadon jade ‘peacock’ hairpin unearthed in Beijing and preserved in the Capital Museum, Beijing, included in Zhongguo meishu quanji. Gongyi meishu bian [Complete series on Chinese art: Arts and crafts section], vol. 9: Yuqi [Jade], Beijing, 1991, no. 238. The fine and naturalistic modelling of the lotus buds is also similar to that on a pair of Jin dynasty jade lotus-shaped ornaments, from the collection of Lüshun Museum, Dalian, illustrated in Gu Fang, Chinese Jades in Traditional Collections, vol. 3, Beijing, 2010, pl. 98.