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ARCHAIC AND ARCHAISTIC JADES FROM THE MICHAEL GULBENKIAN COLLECTIONMICHAEL GULBENKIAN玉器收藏TWO JADE 'DRAGON' CARVINGSEASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 7TH-6TH CENTURY BC東周 公元前七至六世紀 玉龍紋珮一組兩件of flattened coiled section, one side covered with a dense pattern of interlocking angular scrolls executed in pairs of incised lines with small comma-like ends, the translucent stone of celadon and pale brown tones(2)Length 4.7 and 4.3 cm, 1? and 1? in. For a very similar coiled dragon openwork plaque, dated to the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, see A. Salmony, Archaic Jades from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, 1952, pl. LXXXV, no. 4. Compare also an arc-shaped pendant decorated with the same distinctive pattern from the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade. From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 265, cat. no. 17:4.