Huang with snake like humans -  Green translucent jade with suffusion and calcification. Some pitting also visible.
- Â Carving in relief via slanting incised lines; decoration by lightly incised lines.
- There is a head with a snake-like body at each end of the huang in a kneeling pose; each head has a crest that parallels the end of the arc.
- In the middle and winding around the 2Â bodies are two other creatures, whose heads are only partially visible.
- cf. Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade, 1995, pp. 46-47 and fig. 34, for a discussion of these peculiar jades and the cultural background.
- This arrangement, and fluid, sinuous style is pretty much unique to the Western Zhou period.
- 12.98 x 2.25 x .58 cm.Â
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