AN ARCHAIC GREEN JADE OPENWORK DRAGON-FORM PENDANT, HUANG Warring States periodAN ARCHAIC GREEN JADE OPENWORK DRAGON-FORM PENDANT, HUANGWarring States periodThe thin plaque simply carved as the silhouette of a horned dragon looking back towards its forked tail, the 'S'-shaped body supported by the curled wing and clawed feet, a small aperture drilled at the center for stringing, the surface plain, the translucent stone mottled with natural inclusions softly polished to a silky surface on both sides, with incised drafting lines still evident on the edges. 4 5/8in (11.8cm) length戰國 青玉素面龍形璜Compare the similar jade dragon-form huang pendant discovered from a Warring States tomb at Baijiacun, Handan, Hebei province, now in the collection of the Handan Museum, illustrated by Gu, Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 1, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Beijing, 2005, p. 132.Compare also the green jade dragon-form huang pendant of this form with traces of cuts very similar to the present example, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Teng (ed.), Jingtian gewu: Zhongguo lidai yuqi daodu, Taipei, 2011, p. 25, no. 3-3-4.Another similar green jade dragon-form huang pendant in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums is illustrated by Loehr and Huber in Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 294, no. 429.