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TWO LONG ROD SHAPED JADE ORNAMENTS
Neolithic Period, circa 4000 – 2000 B.C.
each plain rod of oval cross section, tapering down to a blunt point and pierced with a hole for suspension drilled from both sides near the tip of the flattened opposite end, the sides softly polished, the pale onion-green jade of even tone, showing scattered cloudy inclusions on one side of the shorter rod.
Lengths 6 1⁄4 and 7 5⁄8 inches (15.9 and 19.4 cm)
Compare two rod shaped ornaments similarly pointed and pierced, excavated at Zhanglingshan, Nanjing, Jiangsu province, illustrated by Sun in “A Chronology of Liangzhu Jades,” Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia, No. 18, Chinese Jades, London, 1997, p. 59, pl. 20, described as early Liangzhu period, circa 3,000 B.C.
新石器時代 玉錐形器二件 長 15.9, 19.4 厘米
