A greyish-celadon jade 'dragon and human' pendant, huang, Mid - late Western Zhou dynasty | 西周中晚期 淺青灰玉雙龍人首紋璜

Jenny F. So, Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong, 2015, cat. no. 12c.

蘇芳淑，《玉澤恆輝：喜聞過齋藏玉》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，2015年，編號12c

Arc-shaped pendants such as the present lot known as huang appear to have been used in several ways to form elaborate necklace assemblages. As part of neck ornaments, they were often strung together in multiple units of three, five, or seven, curving up, with beaded ornaments made of other materials such as agate, while in other occasions, they could be strung curving down, and for other smaller pendant sets, they could be hung from other parts of a garment. See a complete set of necklaces, Western Zhou, with a very similar huang pendant suspending, curving up, at the bottom, illustrated in Yang Boda, Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], Hebei, 2005, pl. 273.

此類半月形玉璜乃商周時期玉組佩飾的一部分，《周禮·春官·大宗伯》：「以玄璜禮北方。」可見璜所用之古，禮遇之高，而春秋戰國時期璜則常見於隨身裝飾，貴族們時興把上衣跟下裳連在一起，稱為「深衣」，腰間需繫上腰帶。此類組玉佩的佩戴方式亦從掛於脖子上逐漸改為掛在腰帶上，璧、璜、管等為較典型的佩件。玉璜的佩戴方向因組佩的搭配方式而異，可上弧或下弧，參看陝西省長安縣張家坡村 58 號墓出土的一組西周玉三璜串飾，現藏於中國社會科學院考古研究所，見楊伯達，《中國玉器全集》，河北，2005 年，編號 273。