Knotted dragon pendant
This pendant takes the shape of a dragon with a sinuous body grooved to resemble twisted rope. Its elegant curves illustrate the extraordinary talent and skill of early Chinese jade carvers, in whose hands hard, intractable jade seems a supple and malleable material.
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