Period:Unknown Production date:3500BC (circa)
Materials:jade, nephrite,
Technique:ground
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Width: 5.20 centimetres
Description:
Jade pendant in the shape of a bird (probably an owl).
IMG
![图片[1]-figure; pendant BM-1973-0726.116-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_RRC14951_front.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure; pendant BM-1973-0726.116-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_00520344_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-figure; pendant BM-1973-0726.116-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_00186675_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1992:Jade was used not only to make ceremonial weapons and tools, but was also carved by some Neolithic peoples into ornaments and small animals. Discoveries in northeast China have demonstrated that peoples in Liaoning province, belonging to what is known today as the Hongshan culture (c. 3500 BC), carved animal figures, such as this one, and other ornaments from jade. The small, unusual stone and jade sculptures found near buildings and in tombs include realistic depictions of turtles and birds. For other Hongshan-type objects, see BM 1973.0726.140 and BM 1973.0726.116. Carvings of creatures had been made in the Neolithic cultures of the northeast and the southeast, the Hongshan and the Liangzhu, but they do not seem to have been known or sought after by the early Shang peoples inhabiting Henan province. However, animal carvings will appear in some profusion at the late Shang capital-city of Anyang. Rawson 1995:All Hongshan jades show an extraordinary command of the material and the techniques of carving. The creatures are worked with great attention to detail and with enormous subtlety of surface.
Materials:jade, nephrite,
Technique:ground
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Width: 5.20 centimetres
Description:
Jade pendant in the shape of a bird (probably an owl).
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1992:Jade was used not only to make ceremonial weapons and tools, but was also carved by some Neolithic peoples into ornaments and small animals. Discoveries in northeast China have demonstrated that peoples in Liaoning province, belonging to what is known today as the Hongshan culture (c. 3500 BC), carved animal figures, such as this one, and other ornaments from jade. The small, unusual stone and jade sculptures found near buildings and in tombs include realistic depictions of turtles and birds. For other Hongshan-type objects, see BM 1973.0726.140 and BM 1973.0726.116. Carvings of creatures had been made in the Neolithic cultures of the northeast and the southeast, the Hongshan and the Liangzhu, but they do not seem to have been known or sought after by the early Shang peoples inhabiting Henan province. However, animal carvings will appear in some profusion at the late Shang capital-city of Anyang. Rawson 1995:All Hongshan jades show an extraordinary command of the material and the techniques of carving. The creatures are worked with great attention to detail and with enormous subtlety of surface.
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