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Necklace with dragon-shaped promotes, Inner Mongolia, Jin Dynasty [d/b]

“The dragon-shaped gold necklaces and gem-encrusted gold crown ornaments unearthed in Inner Mongolia and excavated from Yanchi in Ningxia empirically demonstrate the exchange and integration of foreign cultures and Central Plains costume cultures”
In the Inner Mongolia Museum https://www.laitimes.com/en/

“Gold loop-in-loop chain necklace with pendants and dragon terminals Western Jin (265–316 AD). Length 128 cm, weight 213.8 g.
Excavated at Xihezicun, Da’erhan Maoming’an United Banner, Ulanqab League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 1981. Museum of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot. After Watt, James C. Y. et al., China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 133, cat. no. 43″
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