J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
24.
A NEOLITHIC MOTTLED GREEN JADE CONG
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300-2250 B.C.
of upright form with hollow cylindrical center and flat squared exterior, the sides very slightly tapered toward the base and divided into five tiers of panels angled across the corners, the open ends enclosed by short plain collars of rounded outline, the five projecting panels carved with stylized masks across the corners, each mask comprised of twin bands of narrow parallel grooves above small circular incised ‘eyes’ and a short raised bar with rounded ends for the ‘nose’, the panels separated by deeper wide grooves cut across the angle to meet a plain vertical band down the center of each side, the interior of the thick sides plain and polished, with a narrow rib near the center showing the opening was drilled from both ends, the dark green jade with widely scattered small black flecks and cloudy mottling throughout.
Height 6 1⁄4 inches (15.9 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 19
A Liangzhu jade cong of similar form, with five tiers of corner-panels similarly carved with stylized masks, excavated from tomb no. 1 at the Shedunmiao site, Haining, Zhejiang province and currently in the collection of the Haining Museum is illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 8, Zhejiang, Beijing, 2005, p. 32.
Another Liangzhu jade cong carved with five tiers of similarly stylized masks, unearthed at Meijiali, Zhejiang province is illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Beijing University by Qin and Fang (eds.), Quanli yu xinyang: Liangzhu yizhi qun kaogu tezhan (Power in Things: New Perspectives on Liangzhu), Beijing, 2015, pp. 211-213, no. II-2-1, with description on p. 385. Compare also the similarly carved Liangzhu jade cong with six tiers of masks unearthed from Wujiafu, Zhejiang province, now in the collection of the Yuhang Museum in Hangzhou, also illustrated by Qin and Fang (eds.), op. cit., pp. 352-353, III-2-12, with description on p. 431.
新石器時代 良渚玉琮 高15.9厘米
來源 藍理捷1994特展圖錄第19號
