Period:Unknown Production date:2600BC-2200BC
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, incised, drilled,
Dimensions:Height: 7.30 centimetres Width: 1.80 centimetres
Description:
Human head pendant of yellow translucent jade with small area of brown inclusion finished to a gentle gloss.
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Comments:This curved slightly convex pendant is gently incised with eyes, nostrils and pouting lips, coiffured hair and hair flowing down the back of the head and neck. There is a bi-conical perforation through the coif. The two sides are similarly decorated. Western Zhou. Length 74mm. See Loo 1950, Dohrenwend 1975, Na Chih-liang 1980, Ip Yee 1983, and Teng Shu’p’ing 1986. Could be Shijiahe or Longshan culture, c.2000BC-1500BC. This very smooth and worn jade shows a human head in profile. It has obviously been much handled and has perhaps been handed down through many generations. On the top of the head is a comb of fine hair, standing upright, and further hair falls in a long lock down the back of the neck. The high rounded forehead gives way to a slightly rounded nose, below which are pursed lips and a long chin. The slanting incised eye with a rounded pupil has above it an incised line for an eyebrow. The neck is much extended to form an arc-shaped pendant. A large hole is drilled from both sides through the top of the hair. This head belongs to the group of jades discussed above, and especially to jades that depict birds in combination with human heads. It seems to be similar in style those illustrated in the introduction and is, therefore, also probably of the same date, that is of the late Neolithic period. Because such jades have been treasured over long periods, they are sometimes erroneously dated to later times. See Rawson 1995, p.202, cat.no.11.1.
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, incised, drilled,
Dimensions:Height: 7.30 centimetres Width: 1.80 centimetres
Description:
Human head pendant of yellow translucent jade with small area of brown inclusion finished to a gentle gloss.
IMG
Comments:This curved slightly convex pendant is gently incised with eyes, nostrils and pouting lips, coiffured hair and hair flowing down the back of the head and neck. There is a bi-conical perforation through the coif. The two sides are similarly decorated. Western Zhou. Length 74mm. See Loo 1950, Dohrenwend 1975, Na Chih-liang 1980, Ip Yee 1983, and Teng Shu’p’ing 1986. Could be Shijiahe or Longshan culture, c.2000BC-1500BC. This very smooth and worn jade shows a human head in profile. It has obviously been much handled and has perhaps been handed down through many generations. On the top of the head is a comb of fine hair, standing upright, and further hair falls in a long lock down the back of the neck. The high rounded forehead gives way to a slightly rounded nose, below which are pursed lips and a long chin. The slanting incised eye with a rounded pupil has above it an incised line for an eyebrow. The neck is much extended to form an arc-shaped pendant. A large hole is drilled from both sides through the top of the hair. This head belongs to the group of jades discussed above, and especially to jades that depict birds in combination with human heads. It seems to be similar in style those illustrated in the introduction and is, therefore, also probably of the same date, that is of the late Neolithic period. Because such jades have been treasured over long periods, they are sometimes erroneously dated to later times. See Rawson 1995, p.202, cat.no.11.1.
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