Period:Unknown Production date:4700BC-2900BC
Materials:jade
Technique:incised, drilled,
Dimensions:Height: 17 centimetres Width: 11.50 centimetres
Description:
Jade tubular form hair ornament with slightly incised linear design, minor chips and worn surface.
IMG
![图片[1]-hair-ornament BM-2022-3034.45-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/mid_573_1.jpg)
Comments:This large jade belongs to one of the major categories of Hongshan jade. It is shaped like an extended, hollow horses’s hoof. Its section is oval, slightly flattened on one side, and it widens from a fairly level lower edge, eroded on one side, to an even opening at the top, the curved side being slightly higher than the flattened one. In this instance the difference is much greater. Tool marks on the outside, in the form of deep semicircular cutting lines, have been carefully smoothed. There are two holes at the bottom of the narrow points of the oval section, drilled from one side. The surface of the jade has a very soft matt polish. Although we do not know the function of such a piece, its importance is obvious from two features: its size and its position in the burial. A carving of this size could only have been made from a substantial block of material, the centre of which was then removed to make it hollow. Such extravagant use of material was not typical of other Hongshan jades. Blocks removed from the centre of large pieces have been recovered, but many were presumably carved into smaller pieces. Most hoof shaped jades found in graves have been found at the head of the tomb occupant and may have been attached to the hair in some way. They are common in Hongshan tombs, and although each tomb usually contains only one, occasionally there are two. They range in size from small, perhaps cut-down examples to much taller, more substantial pieces. See Rawson 1995, p.115, cat.no.1.2.
Materials:jade
Technique:incised, drilled,
Dimensions:Height: 17 centimetres Width: 11.50 centimetres
Description:
Jade tubular form hair ornament with slightly incised linear design, minor chips and worn surface.
IMG
Comments:This large jade belongs to one of the major categories of Hongshan jade. It is shaped like an extended, hollow horses’s hoof. Its section is oval, slightly flattened on one side, and it widens from a fairly level lower edge, eroded on one side, to an even opening at the top, the curved side being slightly higher than the flattened one. In this instance the difference is much greater. Tool marks on the outside, in the form of deep semicircular cutting lines, have been carefully smoothed. There are two holes at the bottom of the narrow points of the oval section, drilled from one side. The surface of the jade has a very soft matt polish. Although we do not know the function of such a piece, its importance is obvious from two features: its size and its position in the burial. A carving of this size could only have been made from a substantial block of material, the centre of which was then removed to make it hollow. Such extravagant use of material was not typical of other Hongshan jades. Blocks removed from the centre of large pieces have been recovered, but many were presumably carved into smaller pieces. Most hoof shaped jades found in graves have been found at the head of the tomb occupant and may have been attached to the hair in some way. They are common in Hongshan tombs, and although each tomb usually contains only one, occasionally there are two. They range in size from small, perhaps cut-down examples to much taller, more substantial pieces. See Rawson 1995, p.115, cat.no.1.2.
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