PROVENANCE: from Lynchburg, VA Private collector. Measurements: Height: 7.7 cm, Diam.: 8.1 cm, Weight: 570 g Fine Chinese Nephrite Jade Dragon Headed Seal On Carved Harwood Stand. A cube shaped of jade carved to a smooth surface with a large headed dragon handgrip erecting at the top. Incredible detail depicting scales and facial features on the dragon giving off a divine and ferocious appearance. Jade is in a natural hue with finely polished smooth surfaces and moist milky appearance. Jade is precious because it is rare, and because the quality of jade corresponds to virtue. It relates to such virtues as benevolence, wisdom, righteousness, propriety, loyalty, and trustworthiness, and it also corresponds to the ways of the heaven and earth.