Period:Unknown Production date:3300BC-2200BC
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, incised, drilled,
Subjects:mask
Dimensions:Height: 2 centimetres Width: 1.40 centimetres
Description:
Miniature cong creamy white jade with some veining and brown surface area, totally calcified with earth encrustation and polished to a good gloss.
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Comments:This small cong has all the features of the larger ones including two layers of masks at each of the four corners; the masks with two striated bands surmounting circular eyes with incised slashes on either side, the areas above the oblong mouths carved with angular scroll motifs, have been curved to suggest noses. There is a vertical biconical perforation. Neolithic. This small cong is complete in all its details. Like the larger pieces it is square in cross-section with a circular hole surrounded by a broad circular collar each end. Indeed, on this miniature scale a circular tube within an outer casing of square form is implied by vertical lines on each side of a central slightly curved section, as though the square side were broken here to allow a glimpse of the central tube. At the corners are two tiers of faces, indicated by parallel bars at the tops of the heads and by short bars for the sharply curved noses. Incised circles representing the eyes have small dashes on each side. A perforation is drilled from both ends. As mentioned in no.524 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.74], small bead like cong of this proportion were used in conjunction with ceremonial axes with fittings on the shafts. An example from tomb M7 at Zhejiang Yuhang Yaoshan was found with these small bead-like cong near enough to suggest that they belonged with the axe. See Rawson 1995, p.140, cat.no.5.2.
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, incised, drilled,
Subjects:mask
Dimensions:Height: 2 centimetres Width: 1.40 centimetres
Description:
Miniature cong creamy white jade with some veining and brown surface area, totally calcified with earth encrustation and polished to a good gloss.
IMG
Comments:This small cong has all the features of the larger ones including two layers of masks at each of the four corners; the masks with two striated bands surmounting circular eyes with incised slashes on either side, the areas above the oblong mouths carved with angular scroll motifs, have been curved to suggest noses. There is a vertical biconical perforation. Neolithic. This small cong is complete in all its details. Like the larger pieces it is square in cross-section with a circular hole surrounded by a broad circular collar each end. Indeed, on this miniature scale a circular tube within an outer casing of square form is implied by vertical lines on each side of a central slightly curved section, as though the square side were broken here to allow a glimpse of the central tube. At the corners are two tiers of faces, indicated by parallel bars at the tops of the heads and by short bars for the sharply curved noses. Incised circles representing the eyes have small dashes on each side. A perforation is drilled from both ends. As mentioned in no.524 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.74], small bead like cong of this proportion were used in conjunction with ceremonial axes with fittings on the shafts. An example from tomb M7 at Zhejiang Yuhang Yaoshan was found with these small bead-like cong near enough to suggest that they belonged with the axe. See Rawson 1995, p.140, cat.no.5.2.
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