TWO JADE 'CHILONG' CARVINGS

Qing dynasty or earlier

Qing dynasty or earlier
The first a flattened pebble of irregular oval silhouette, deeply undercut as a young dragon grasping a twisting lingzhi branch with delicately incised details, the pale grayish white stone enlivened with russet dark gray patches along the edges; the second an oval pendant reticulated as a dragon resting its head on its upraised tail, the outer edges of the loop subtly contoured with the beast's backbone that coincides partly with pale golden veins and natural fissure lines in the pale greenish-white stone.
2 1/4 and 2 1/2in (5.8 and 6.5cm) long (2).

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Provenance:
Dr. Dean Edell

Exhibited:
The oval pendant: "Treasures of the Chinese Nobility", Cornell Fine Arts Museum, May-September, 1997

Published:
Christopher Randall, The Brush & the Stone: Chinese Jades, Snuff Bottles and Works of Art from the Collection of Dr. Dean Edell, Hong Kong, 1998: the oval pendant as Ming dynasty, No. 29, pp. 45-46