Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300-2250 B.C.
recut in antiquity from the corner of a cong, with two large circular eyes within slightly raised ovals joined by a medial ridge below a wide border carved across the angle with twin bands of incised lines, and with a raised ‘mouth’ bar at the bottom, and embellished with very fine linear scroll motifs all over, the back drilled at the top and bottom with holes for attachment.
Height 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 24
Compare the jade cong carved from very similar stone with similar big-eye masks on the bottom layer surrounded by finely incised linear scroll motifs, excavated from a Liangzhu culture site at Yaoshan, Zhejiang province in 1987, illustrated in Liangzhu wenhua yuqi (Liangzhu Culture Jades), Hong Kong, 1989, p. 19, no. 22.
新石器時代 良渚神面紋玉飾 高3.2厘米
來源 藍理捷1994特展圖錄第24號
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300-2250 B.C.
Height 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm)