A reticulated celadon jade 'dragon' plaque, Eastern Zhou dynasty | 東周 青白玉透雕雙龍紋飾
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A reticulated celadon jade 'dragon' plaque,
Eastern Zhou dynasty
東周 青白玉透雕雙龍紋飾
the slightly curved plaque intricately reticulated with a complex and symmetrical design of a pair of stylised S-shaped animals, each with a sinuous body terminated in a bifurcated tail, the body detailed with interlinked C-scrolls with subtle beveling, all outlined within meticulously striated borders, the reverse undecorated and pierce𓃲d with fꦫour small diagonal perforations
4.8 by 5 cm
Christie's New York, 2nd December 1985, lot 50.
紐約佳士得1985年12月2日，編號50
Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 17:14.
羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolitဣhic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版17:14
British Museum, London, on loan, 1995.
大英博物館，倫敦，借展，1995年
Ingeniously designed, the openwork plaque depicts a pair of dragons with their dynamic bodies leaning back to back. The effect of the p🌌lay of light through the jade is enhanced by the striated borders and th♌e subtlety bevelled interlinked scrolls. The curvature and perforations of the present plaque suggest that it was made for attachment to some other material (Rawson, ibid., p. 272).
A similar double-dragon plaque was discovered in Luoyang and published in 'Luoyang xijiao yihao zhanguo mu fajue ji [Excavcation report of the Warring States tomb no. 1 in the western suburbs of Luoyang]', Kaogu / Archaeology, 1959, no. 12, pp. 653-7, pl. 3, no. 8.