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deserved of us in transmitting another type of chatelaine in Fig. 104 

 with the remark that it is "a devil's work (i. e. very clever work) from 

 Turkistan." The chains with their links carved from one piece of 

 jade are remarkable; the same kind of work may be seen in one of out 

 jade resonant stones (Plate LVII). Ten of these chains terminate 

 in tiny jade bells. This is, of course, a special type of chatelaine being 



M. 

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Fig. 102. 

 Jade Head-Piece of Girdle- Pendant (from Km yil t'u p'u). 



Fig. 103. 



Jade Head-Piece of Girdle-Pendant in Shape of Lotus-Leaf 



(from Ku yti t'u p'u). 



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in no historical connection with the ancient Chinese girdle-pendant. 

 The editors of the Ku yti t'u p'u are, in this case, quite honest and 

 confess that the age of this piece is not known, I believe we shall 

 not err in assigning it to the T'ang period, since at that time there 

 was lively intercourse between China and Turkistan, and the trade 

 in jade from Khotan to China was at its height. Besides, this speci- 

 men is of great historical value, as it seems to be the father of these 

 modern silver chatelaines 1 current all over China, Tibet and Mongolia, 

 and usually consisting of five pieces, — toothpick, tweezers, earspoon, 

 small brush for oiling the hair and boar's tooth for parting the hair, 



1 Numerous varieties from China and Tibet are in our collection, 

 in Bushell, Chinese Art, Vol. II. 



See Fig. 107 



