This flat dark green jade pendant is finely decorated with spiral motifs in relief intertwined with phoenixes' heads, creating a playful and delicate pattern. A small circular aperture has been drilled at the centre.
The design is in style of the jade of the Warring Period. Jade occupies a special place in Chinese artistic culture, valued as gold is in the West but embedded with even higher moral values. Plaques and dress ornaments were carved from thin slabs of jade, but there are also small figurines, masks, and birds and animals carved in the round.