A PALE CELADON JADE ‘DOUBLE-DRAGON’ PENDANT, HUANG, WARRING STATES STYLE

A PALE CELADON JADE ‘DOUBLE-DRAGON’ PENDANT, HUANG, WARRING STATES STYLE China, probably Ming dynasty (1644-1912) or earlier. Of flattened form, carved with a dragon head with a pierced and slit mouth to each end, the arched body with comma spirals enclosed by rope twist borders. The translucent stone of a pale celadon tone with russet and gray inclusions as well as areas of calcification. Provenance: From an old private collection in southern Germany, further supplemented by inheritances during the 1950s, and acquisitions between the 1960s and 1980s, thence by descent in the same family. Condition: Very good condition with expected wear, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, minor nibbling, and calcification. The stones with natural fissures, some of which may have developed into minor hairlines. Weight: 18.7 g Dimensions: Length 7 cm Literature comparison: Compare a related Warring States jade pendant with dragon heads, rope twist details, and comma spirals, 8 cm long, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number S1987.675.