J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

A similarly carved jade tixingpai trapezoidal plaque suspending multiple strands of colorful beads is illustrated by Rawson, “Ordering the Exotic: Ritual Practices in the Late Western and Early Eastern Zhou,” Artibus Asiae, 2013, LXXIII:1, figs. 26b, 37a, 38, where the author notes it was found in the tomb of a female consort of a Rui lord excavated at the site of the 8th century cemetery of the Rui State at Liangdai village, Hancheng city, Shanxi province. Rawson goes on to say that tixingpai and beads pectoral ornament sets evidently first appeared in the 10th century B.C. in the tombs of high-ranking females and the use of long strands of biconical agate and other beads strung to create horizontal bands of different colors suggests the influence of Western, non-Zhou tribes. The same tixingpai and beads pectoral ornament set was previously published in Wenwu, 2008, No. 1, p. 10, fig. 15.

Rawson illustrates two more jade tixingpai and beads pectoral ornament sets excavated from female tombs at the site of the Western Zhou cemetery of the Jin State at Beizhao, Tianma-Qucun, Shanxi province, with burials dated to Western Zhou and early Eastern Zhou, op. cit., fig. 27. The same pectoral ornament sets are illustrated in Wenwu, 1994, No. 8, pp. 28–30, figs. 3, 8; and in Wenwu, 1995, No. 7, pp. 18-19, fig. 20.   

Another similar Western Zhou tixingpai trapezoidal jade pendant and beads pectoral ornament set excavated from the Ying State cemetery at Pingdingshan, Henan province, and now in the Henan Provincial Museum is illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 5, Henan, Beijing, 2005, p. 177.