J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
42.
A NEOLITHIC JADE SHIELD SHAPE ORNAMENT
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300-2250 B.C.
the thick plaque of rounded form decorated with an elaborate mask carved with a pair of incised circular ‘eyes’ surrounded by raised elliptical ovals joined by a bridge surmounted by a complex fan shape crest, and with a short ‘mouth’ bar with rounded ends below, all embellished with dense linear spiral and scroll designs very finely incised throughout, the plain flat back with three square tabs projecting from the upper margin and a fourth tab at the bottom, all drilled vertically for attachment, the cream white stone with reddish brown stain and cloudy degraded areas.
Width 2 1⁄4 inches (5.7 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 28
Compare the jade ornament of closely related form similarly carved with thick pierced tabs at the back excavated in 1986 from a Liangzhu culture site at Fanshan, Zejiang province, illustrated in the excavation report in Wenwu, 1988, No. 1, pl. 2:4, and in a line drawing on p. 24, fig. 46, and again in color showing four views in Liangzhu wenhua yuqi (Liangzhu Culture Jades), Hong Kong, 1989, p.p. 98-99, nos. 128-30. Another jade ornament of this type excavated from the Liangzhu Henshan site, tomb M2:4, now in the collection of the Yuhang Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, is illustrated in Quanli yu Xinyang: Liangzhu yizhiqun kaogu tezhan (Power in Things: New Perspectives on Liangzhu), Beijing, 2015, p. 264, with description on p. 405.
Compare also the masks similarly carved with large raised oval panels around the eyes and filled in with similar complex linear scrollwork, carved on the lower tier of a two-tiered cong excavated from a Liangzhu site at Sidun, Jiangsu province, illustrated in two views in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 1, Shijiazhuang, 1992, p. 110, no. 150.
新石器時代 良渚神面紋盾形玉飾 寬5.7厘米
來源 藍理捷1994特展圖錄第28號
42.
A NEOLITHIC JADE SHIELD SHAPE ORNAMENT
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300-2250 B.C.
Width 2 1⁄4 inches (5.7 cm)