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

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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