Pendant in the form of a dragon with dragon elements and raised uniform curls arranged in a grid, one of a pair

Historical period(s)
Warring States period, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 475-221 BCE
Medium
Jade (nephrite)
Dimensions
H x W x D: 6.1 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm (2 3/8 x 5 15/16 x 3/16 in)
Geography
China, Probably Jincun, Henan province
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1932.43
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Jade, Jewelry and Ornament
Type

Pendant

Keywords
China, dragon, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)
Provenance

To 1932
C. T. Loo and Company, New York, NY, to 1932 [1]

From 1932
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo and Company, New York, NY, in 1932 [2]

Notes:

[1] Object file, undated Folder Sheet note.

[2] See note 1. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

C.T. Loo & Company 1914-1948

Published References
  • Alfred Salmony. Chinese Jade Through the Wei Dynasty. New York, 1963. pl. 22, no. 5.
  • Huang Jun. Heng-chai ts'ang-chien Ku-yu t'u/Hengzhai cang jian gu yu tu: Ancient jades collected and seen by Huang Jun. vol. 2 Beijing. vol. 1: pl. 18.
  • Geoffrey WIlls. Jade of the East., 1st ed. New York, 1972. figs. 39-40.
  • William Charles White. Tombs of Old Lo-yang: A Record of the Construction of a Group of Royal Tombs at Chin-ts'un, Honan, Probably Dating 550 B.C., 1st ed. Shanghai. cat. 316b, pl. 128.
  • Sueji Umehara. Rakuyo kinson kobo shuei [Objects from the Ancient Tombs at Chin Ts'un, Lo-yang]. Kyoto. pl. 83.
  • Alfred Salmony. Carved Jade of Ancient China. Berkeley, 1938. pl. 44, no. 2.
  • S. Howard Hansford. Chinese Carved Jades. The Arts of the East London. pl. 48.
  • Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 18, vol. 1: p. 155.
  • Na Chih-liang. "玉器通史." Yu ch'i t'ung shih [A General Study of Chinese Jade]. Hong Kong, 1965. p. 16, fig. 20.
  • Sherman Lee. A History of Far Eastern Art. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964. p. 49, fig. 46.
  • Jenny F. So. Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. 3 New York, 1995. p. 59, fig. 103.
  • Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. Thames and Hudson World of Art London and Washington, 2010. pp. 66-67.
  • Dagny Carter. Four Thousand Years of China's Art. New York. p. 68.
  • John Calvin Ferguson. Survey of Chinese Art: Chapters I - X. Shanghai. p. 69.
  • Thomas Lawton. Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C. Washington, 1982-1983. cat. 96, p. 149.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
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