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FIG. i. The top, underside,
and two sides of a gilt
bronze and jade headrest;
length 31.2 (izVi); Western
Han period; excavated in
1991 from Houloushan,
Xuzhou, Jiangsu province.
After Xuzhou 1993, 43,
fig- 33-
1 Excavated in 1968 (M 1:5188); reported: Zhongguo 1980)3,
1:78-81.
2 Long scrolls, often called cloud scrolls, had several
sources, including (as here), the dragon patterns originally
developed for bronzes and adapted to jade. A lacquer
painted form related to such jade and bronze designs
appears on the coffin of the wife of the Marquis of Dai,
buried at Mawangdui (Hunan 1973, i: fig. 26).
3 A clear example of a jade plaque based upon a bronze
ornament from the north or northwest is illustrated by
So and Bunker 1995, no. 79.
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