Period:Western Zhou dynasty Production date:11thC BC-8thC BC
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:incised, drilled,
Dimensions:Height: 4.50 centimetres Width: 2.30 centimetres
Description:
Ornamental plaque of translucent greenish yellow jade with earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar. The flat slightly tapered plaque represented with incised grooves as sheaves bound together with a transverse band in relief. The plain back with four slanted perforations drilled through to the top and bottom edges.
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Comments:Eastern Zhou. Height 46mm. See Stanford 1958, and Rawson 1995, p.317, cat.no.24:2. This plaque, which is flat on one side and decorated on the other, is symmetrical, with fins flaring outwards on each side of a central raised band. This band consists of a thin rib with slightly tilted wider flanges either side, and each of the two ends is embellished with incised lines. There are four perforations on the back. Although such plaques have been known for some time and are recorded in several museum catalogues, only recently has the proper context of this type of jade been recognised. It is one of the jades that was attached to a shroud or head veil in burial. Almost identical pieces have been found in Western Zhou tombs sat Shaanxi Chang’an Fengxi. This plaque type was well established in the Eastern Zhou, as illustrated by examples from the tombs of the lord of the Huang state and that of his wife and from a slightly later tomb at Long xian Bianjiazhuang in Shaanxi province.
Materials:jade, cinnabar (traces),
Technique:incised, drilled,
Dimensions:Height: 4.50 centimetres Width: 2.30 centimetres
Description:
Ornamental plaque of translucent greenish yellow jade with earth encrustation and traces of cinnabar. The flat slightly tapered plaque represented with incised grooves as sheaves bound together with a transverse band in relief. The plain back with four slanted perforations drilled through to the top and bottom edges.
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Comments:Eastern Zhou. Height 46mm. See Stanford 1958, and Rawson 1995, p.317, cat.no.24:2. This plaque, which is flat on one side and decorated on the other, is symmetrical, with fins flaring outwards on each side of a central raised band. This band consists of a thin rib with slightly tilted wider flanges either side, and each of the two ends is embellished with incised lines. There are four perforations on the back. Although such plaques have been known for some time and are recorded in several museum catalogues, only recently has the proper context of this type of jade been recognised. It is one of the jades that was attached to a shroud or head veil in burial. Almost identical pieces have been found in Western Zhou tombs sat Shaanxi Chang’an Fengxi. This plaque type was well established in the Eastern Zhou, as illustrated by examples from the tombs of the lord of the Huang state and that of his wife and from a slightly later tomb at Long xian Bianjiazhuang in Shaanxi province.
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