LATE EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC

The present huang can be compared to the jade example in the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 267, no. 17:6. For a depiction of how huang of this type might have been worn, see p. 263, fig. 1, where a line drawing of lacquer-painted figures from the Chu tomb at Henan Xinyang, 4th century BC, shows huang hung from pendent beaded cords down the front of the body.