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42. A N eolithic Jade Shield Shape Ornament
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300–2250 B.C.
the thick plaque of rounded form decorated with an elaborate mask carved with a pair of incised
circular ‘eyes’ surrounded by raised elliptical ovals joined by a bridge surmounted by a complex
fan shape crest, and with a short ‘mouth’ bar with rounded ends below, all embellished with dense
linear spiral and scroll designs very finely incised throughout, the plain flat back with three square
tabs projecting from the upper margin and a fourth tab at the bottom, all drilled vertically for
attachment, the cream white stone with reddish brown stain and cloudy degraded areas.
Width 2¼ inches (5.7 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 28
Compare the jade ornament of closely related form similarly carved with thick pierced tabs at the back excavated in 1986
from a Liangzhu culture site at Fanshan, Zejiang province, illustrated in the excavation report in Wenwu, 1988, No. 1,
pl. 2:4, and in a line drawing on p. 24, fig. 46, and again in color showing four views in Liangzhu wenhua yuqi (Liangzhu
Culture Jades), Hong Kong, 1989, p.p. 98-99, nos. 128-30. Another jade ornament of this type excavated from the Liangzhu
Henshan site, tomb M2:4, now in the collection of the Yuhang Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, is illustrated in
Quanli yu Xinyang: Liangzhu yizhiqun kaogu tezhan (Power in Things: New Perspectives on Liangzhu), Beijing, 2015, p. 264,
with description on p. 405.
Compare also the masks similarly carved with large raised oval panels around the eyes and filled in with similar complex
linear scrollwork, carved on the lower tier of a two-tiered cong excavated from a Liangzhu site at Sidun, Jiangsu province,
illustrated in two views in Zhongguo yuqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Jades), Vol. 1, Shijiazhuang, 1992, p. 110, no. 150.
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