Matching pendants of this quality are rare and would have been reserved for those of very high station and rank. Dragon-shaped pendants of this type with 'S'-shaped bodies and scrolling limbs were included in the range of jade pendants sets from tombs dating from the 4th and 5th centuries BC. Several excavated examples are mentioned by J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1996, p.261. Although a great number of pendants in this style were produced, the decoration covering the bodies of these dragons varied considerably, ranging from incised cloud scrolls, rush-mat or hexagonal patterns in relief, and raised spiraling or grain-type bosses. |The holes drilled at the top centre enabled the pendant to be hung in perfect balance at the bottom of an assembled set of other components including, beads, huang and bi disc carvings. For a discussion of the pendant assemblage, see J.F.So, Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, pp.110-111. |Compare a pair of 'dragon' pendants of related form but with raised spiral bosses, in the Sir Joseph Hotung collection, illustrated by J.Rawson, op. cit., p.267, no.17:9; and another pair excavated from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, illustrated by Gu Fang, The Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades, Beijing, 2007, p.188. A slender 'dragon' jade plaque with similar thickly incised cloud-scrolls, early Warring States period, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth – Chinese Jades Through the Ages, Taipei, 2012, p.98, pl.5-6-13; see also a pair, mid-Warring States period, in the Aurora Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Sun Qingwei, Jades of Warring States Period , Taipei, 2007, pl.93.|玉質整體白化，表面泛黃。雕一對龍形佩，佩體片狀。龍回首仰望，龍身由下向上彎拱，尾端朝上勾卷，器身中上方有一繫帶孔，龍身琢密集的線刻雲榖相雜紋，兩面雕相同紋飾，神采飛揚，氣韻生動。整體造型規範，可稱戰國時期同類器物中的佳作。|龍形佩為裝飾禮玉，通常雕龍體兩端一首一尾，龍足作爪形或羽狀，有的龍體無爪。玉龍除素面外常見紋飾包括渦紋、穀紋、卷雲紋、勾連紋等。此對龍形佩器形較大，兩面均雕有紋飾，如此器形偏大且工藝複雜的龍形佩通常由王侯將相級別人士所製，在春秋晚期戰國早期的高等級墓葬中曾多有出土，相關討論見J.Rawson，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1996年，頁261。有關此類佩飾頂部之圓孔以及其佩戴方式的討論，見J.F.So,《Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection》，香港，2015年，頁110-111。|何鴻卿爵士舊藏一對穀紋龍形玉佩可資參考，見J.Rawson同著錄，頁267，編號17:9。湖北省隨州市曾侯乙墓出土的戰國早期龍形玉佩一對，器形較此對玉佩稍小，見古方，《中國古玉器圖典》，北京，2007年，頁188。台北國立故宮博物院藏一件戰國早期玉龍，其紋飾可作比較，另見一對戰國中期龍形玉佩，著錄於《敬天格物：中國歷代玉器》，台北，2012年，頁98-99，圖5-6-13及5-6-15。震旦博物館藏一對戰國中期龍形玉佩，其器形稍大，可資比較，見孫慶偉著，《戰國玉器》，台北，2007年，圖版93。