Feb., 1912. 



Jade. 



251 



The same cap pien was held by a hat-pin of jade stuck through 

 it, as we are informed by the Chou li. The Ku yii t'u p'u illus- 

 trates a number of such jade pins (pien ch'ai), but for lack of other 

 comparative material I am not prepared to judge whether, or in how 

 far they are authentic. It may be sufficient to reproduce one of them 

 in Fig. 156, which is alleged to come down from the Shang or Chou 

 period. Only the handle is decorated. The second specimen in the 



C_ 



Fig. 156. 

 Jade Hat-Pin (from Ku yii t'u p'u). 



above work has a similar handle, and the pin, hexagonal in section, is 

 engraved with a band of cloud-ornaments. The third is surmounted 

 by a dragon-head, and the body of the pin consists of dragon-scales 

 carved in open-work. It is recorded as a special peculiarity of this 

 piece that the jade exhales a natural perfume like garoo-wood, and that, 

 if placed on the head, the whole house will be filled by this odor. Anoth- 

 er pin is surmounted by the full figure of a swallow "whose shape, wings 

 and feathers show life's motion and are impressing, as if alive; but to 



Fig. 157. 

 Cap showing Wear of Jade Pin, after Sketch by the Painter Li Kung-lin (from Ku yu t'u p'u). 



judge from this bird, it is not a Han work." The next is shaped into the 

 appearance of a bamboo stem, hollow, and stated to be a work of the 

 Tsin or T'ang period. The last is surmounted by a phenix-head and 

 alleged to be Han. 



In Fig. 157 for two reasons, I reproduce from the same work (Ch. 51) 

 a cap designated as "head-dress of retired scholars" (yin shih kuan); 

 first, because it gives some idea of how the hat-pin was supposed to 

 have been used, and secondly, because this design is associated with the 

 name of the famous painter Li Kung-lin. I shall not waste time in 

 proving in detail that all the official head-dresses pictured in the Ku 

 yii t'u p'u with an elaborate decorative material and alleged to be entirely 



