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Gray green jade with black stain at one end

This piece has animal mask carving on both sides. The eyes are done in lay one form. Each mouth has four sharp fangs and the earlobes are embellished with ornaments resembling those of the Mayan people of South America. Next to these are all shaped patterns below the mask are stylized dragon patterns includes within decorative bands. During the Ching, Gao Zong Emperor reign carving of several imperial household seals and poems were added to each side of the tablet. One side has the Wu-Fu Wu-Dai-Tang-Gu-Xi-Tain-Zi-Bao and Tai-Shang-Huang-Di-Zi-Bao seals and a poetic inscription and the side has the Ba-Zheng-Mao-Nian seal and two poems. One in five character meter and one in seven character meter. 

Green jade with brown and green markings

Disc shaped but not perfectly rounds this piece is of a regular thickness both sideshow grinding scars and an impression in the rim is due to a flaw in the original jade block The center hole was board from one side. This piece was provided with a red stand during the Ching dynasty on which a five-character inscription Li Shu clerical script has been carved. The inscription reads Jin-Yi-Xuan-Zhen-Wan a rare and precious trinket for joyful tranquility. 

White jade with deep brown markings

An unembellished slightly, a symmetrical disc is with the center hole bored with one side and the two faces of unequal size. Huan discs where generally used decoratively although some were used as tallies. The Guang Yun a Song dynasty rhyme dictionary records that an official away from court would return if sent a Huan as this word sounds the same in Chinese as ¡§Huan¡¨ to return. 

Green jade with brown and black markings

This is the largest song (tub) tomb in the palace museum wide at the bottom it tapers gradually toward the top with a total of seventeen Zu divisions along the body. Each of these Zu is in sized with a long and a short line and a circular mark as a decoration. Repeated around the four faces of the tub sides. A similar piece now in the British museum was originally apart of Eumorfopoulus collection. 

Light yellow jade with brownish markings

This is the largest Huang pendant in the palace museum collection. Judging from structural evidence it was originally apart of a bead disc that was cut down. It was also later embellished on one side with two seal impressions Tian-Ran-Tong-De and Gan Long and the other with a four-character title in Li Shu or clerical script. A poem is in seven-character meter in the emperor calligraphy and two small seal impressions De-Jia-Qu and Gan-Long-Chen-Han. Huang were originally half bead disc and were one of the six categories of the colonial utensils in the Chow system used in the sacrifice to the spirit of the north. Smaller Huang were ornamental and most extend examples are embellished with carving of various kinds 

White jade with yellow stains

This is a piece with a small hole at one end and two small holes at the other. The Huang was the horizontal headpiece of a set of girdle pendants warns by officials of ancient china, which served to regulate their gate, as well, as ornate their persons. 

Yellow jade with brown markings

The head and tail of the dragon is close together and the body is carved with a cloud pattern. A hornless dragon appears on one face near the tail. The dimension of this piece resemble those of the run disc and about the size of a modern bracelet which appear to of have been its intended use rather then as a sacrificial jade

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