A JADE CARVING OF A DRAGON 'LONG'

Description:

China, probably Eastern Zhou dynasty, 481-256 B.C.
B. 8,9 cm
Of yellow-brownish translucent jade with small red parts, in the shape of an open ring, the slender body of the dragon bending in the middle and returning to the head on the inside of the ring, decorated with a spiral pattern on both sides.
From the Zeileis collection, assembled in the 1980s and 90s
Cf. with: Masterworks of Chinese Jade, Palastmuseum Taipeh, 1973, no. 11
Published in: Friedrich Georg Zeileis, 'Ausgewählte Chinesische Jade aus sieben Jahrtausenden', Gallspach, 1994, no. 170, pp. 208-209 - Very minor old chips or surface irregularities along the outer edge