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A DRAGON-CARVED JADE DAGGER HANDLE Tang - Five Dynasties image 1
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Lot 46

A DRAGON-CARVED JADE DAGGER HANDLE
Tang - Five Dynasties

20 March 2023, 08:30 EDT
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A DRAGON-CARVED JADE DAGGER HANDLE

Tang - Five Dynasties
Boldly chased and incised with a winged three-claw dragon flying in mid-air chasing a 'pearl just beyond its open jaws, the scaly serpentine body coiled between stylized cloud scrolls, capped with gilt bronze mount and with remnant of an iron blade, the olive-green stone smoothly polished and stained with iron rust from burial.
6 1/4in (16cm) length

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唐-五代 青玉裝鎏金銅龍紋刀柄

A jade plaque carved in a very similar style with a three-claw winged dragon and scrolling clouds in the collection of the Tianjin Museum is illustrated by Bai (ed.), Tianjin bowuguan cang yu (Jade Wares Collected by the Tianjin Museum), Beijing, 2012, p. 132, no. 114, described as Tang – Five Dynasties.

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