Period:Unknown Production date:3300BC-2200BC
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, pierced,
Subjects:mask
Dimensions:Height: 23.30 centimetres Width: 8.20 centimetres
Description:
Tsung of opaque and variegated bright green and brownish jade polished to a good gloss.
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Comments:See Min Chiu 1990 and Keverne 1991. The development of tall cong, is here fully realised in one of the best known of all cong types. It consists of a large block of dark grey green and brown stone, with a square cross-section, diminishing steadily from top to bottom. The sides are subdivided into the seven sections marked by horizontal divisions. A central circular hole is surrounded at each end by a rectangular collar with rounded corners. The two collars are also subtly shaped,so that they taper outwards. Each of the seven sections presents a face at each of the four corners; in this instance, ridges represent both the headbands and the nose clearly, but the eyes are less visible. The eyes are concentric circles with very small dashes on the two sides. The tube has been pierced from the two ends and is ridged at points along its length. This cong belongs to the category of larger cong fully displayed in tomb M3 at Jiangsu Wujjin Sidun. Although large cong are abundant in this tomb at Sidun, fourteen of the thirty-two found in the tomb are over 20 cm in height. Very few tombs with such an abundance of cong have come to light. A few large cong have come from smaller tombs. There are a number of relatively tall cong in museums in Asia and the West, and these pieces may all have come from one or two large tombs discovered in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Pieces exactly comparable are in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the major collections in the US,l including the Art Institute Chicago, the Winthrop Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University and the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Large cong must have been known as early as the Song period when they were copied in Longquan celadon and Guan ware. See Rawson 1995, p.128, cat.no.3.5. The tall prism slightly larger at the top end tapers gently towards a smaller lower end displaying seven layers of masks at the raised corners. The masks consist of two horizontal striated bands over double-circle eyes with side slashes extending from the circles, above a rectangular mouth incised with angular curls. Extensions from either end of the biconical perforation running through the tsung with a ridged internal surface. Neolithic – Liangzhu. Height 230mm.
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, pierced,
Subjects:mask
Dimensions:Height: 23.30 centimetres Width: 8.20 centimetres
Description:
Tsung of opaque and variegated bright green and brownish jade polished to a good gloss.
IMG
Comments:See Min Chiu 1990 and Keverne 1991. The development of tall cong, is here fully realised in one of the best known of all cong types. It consists of a large block of dark grey green and brown stone, with a square cross-section, diminishing steadily from top to bottom. The sides are subdivided into the seven sections marked by horizontal divisions. A central circular hole is surrounded at each end by a rectangular collar with rounded corners. The two collars are also subtly shaped,so that they taper outwards. Each of the seven sections presents a face at each of the four corners; in this instance, ridges represent both the headbands and the nose clearly, but the eyes are less visible. The eyes are concentric circles with very small dashes on the two sides. The tube has been pierced from the two ends and is ridged at points along its length. This cong belongs to the category of larger cong fully displayed in tomb M3 at Jiangsu Wujjin Sidun. Although large cong are abundant in this tomb at Sidun, fourteen of the thirty-two found in the tomb are over 20 cm in height. Very few tombs with such an abundance of cong have come to light. A few large cong have come from smaller tombs. There are a number of relatively tall cong in museums in Asia and the West, and these pieces may all have come from one or two large tombs discovered in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Pieces exactly comparable are in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the major collections in the US,l including the Art Institute Chicago, the Winthrop Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University and the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Large cong must have been known as early as the Song period when they were copied in Longquan celadon and Guan ware. See Rawson 1995, p.128, cat.no.3.5. The tall prism slightly larger at the top end tapers gently towards a smaller lower end displaying seven layers of masks at the raised corners. The masks consist of two horizontal striated bands over double-circle eyes with side slashes extending from the circles, above a rectangular mouth incised with angular curls. Extensions from either end of the biconical perforation running through the tsung with a ridged internal surface. Neolithic – Liangzhu. Height 230mm.
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