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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
47.
A NEOLITHIC JADE ORNAMENT CARVED WITH MASKS
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300-2250 B.C.
of short thick drum shape, carved on the exterior with three matching masks, each with a pair of deeply grooved round eyes joined by a slightly raised narrow bridge above a flattened nose of inverted ‘T’ shape and an elongated mouth, all enhanced with and surrounded by incised linear decoration including a fan-shaped crest between the eyes and hooked scrolls randomly scattered to fill the raised panel of each mask, with plain recessed vertical bands between the panels, the top and bottom of the bead polished flat but with the smoothed contours of some imperfections not entirely ground down, a small channel drilled through the center leaving very thick walls, the stone of olive brown color with pale tan mottling.
Diameter 1 1⁄8 inches (2.8 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 31
Compare the slightly larger carving of this form, similarly decorated with three masks in slightly raised panels, with finely incised details around the exterior, excavated in 1987 from a Liangzhu site at Yaoshan in Zhejiang province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 1 Shijiazhuang, 1992, p. 107, no. 147.
新石器時代 良渚神面紋柱形玉飾 徑2.8厘米
來源 藍理捷1994特展圖錄第31號
47.
A NEOLITHIC JADE ORNAMENT CARVED WITH MASKS
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300-2250 B.C.
Diameter 1 1⁄8 inches (2.8 cm)