Period:Unknown Production date:3500BC (circa)
Materials:jade
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 6.80 centimetres Width: 8.20 centimetres Depth: 5.60 centimetres
Description:
Hoof-shaped jade ornament. Originally a hair ornament. Decorated with a mask design and two perforations produced at a later period. Made of jade.
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![图片[1]-hair-ornament BM-1945-1017.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_00161389_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-hair-ornament BM-1945-1017.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_00327153_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-hair-ornament BM-1945-1017.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_00363608_001.jpg)
![图片[4]-hair-ornament BM-1945-1017.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_00520344_001.jpg)
Comments:Reworked from a Hongshan jade hair ornament in the Shang Dynasty.See Jessica Rawson, ‘Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing’, London 1992, 2002, pp. 115-6 for hoof shaped ornaments. 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 and other ornaments, such as this piece, from jade.Similar pieces have been found beneath the heads of the dead in Hongshan graves and may once have had hair threaded through them.For other Hongshan-type objects, see BM 1973.0726.140 and BM 1973.0726.116.
Materials:jade
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 6.80 centimetres Width: 8.20 centimetres Depth: 5.60 centimetres
Description:
Hoof-shaped jade ornament. Originally a hair ornament. Decorated with a mask design and two perforations produced at a later period. Made of jade.
IMG
Comments:Reworked from a Hongshan jade hair ornament in the Shang Dynasty.See Jessica Rawson, ‘Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing’, London 1992, 2002, pp. 115-6 for hoof shaped ornaments. 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 and other ornaments, such as this piece, from jade.Similar pieces have been found beneath the heads of the dead in Hongshan graves and may once have had hair threaded through them.For other Hongshan-type objects, see BM 1973.0726.140 and BM 1973.0726.116.
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