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Chinese jade pendant carved as a dragon, one of a pair

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An image of A pair of dragon pendants. Dark green jade with mottled area of altered stone, decorated with incised interlinking spirals. The dragons are more or less completely abstract, each composed of a powerful arched body, scrolling fins and claws issuing from the body and the tail. These two pendants are almost identical and seem to have been cut with the same template. Nephrite, length 15.5 cm, width 7.9 cm, 400-200 B.C. Chinese.

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A pair of dragon pendants. Dark green jade with mottled area of altered stone, decorated with incised interlinking spirals. The dragons are more or less completely abstract, each composed of a powerful arched body, scrolling fins and claws issuing from the body and the tail. These two pendants are almost identical and seem to have been cut with the same template. Nephrite, length 15.5 cm, width 7.9 cm, 400-200 B.C. Chinese.

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  • Accession Number: O.11 A & B -1946
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 687 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 103.39kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2007:11:10 15:07:36

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BC Chinese creature decorated decoration decorative dragons Fitz_AA jade jewellery jewelry mythical mythology nephrite ornament pendant spirals

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