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A RARE YELLOWISH-JADE FINIAL/INSIGNIA
LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD/EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 2000-1700 BC
Details
A RARE YELLOWISH-JADE FINIAL/INSIGNIA
LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD/EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 2000-1700 BC
The soft, pale yellow, semi-translucent plaque appears to be fragmentary and is carved on both sides as a face in profile, which is detailed with a large eye, and with a prominent, bulbous nose and a thick-lipped mouth along one edge, while there are notches carved along the top and opposite edge. There is a single hole drilled from both sides at the narrow end. There is some earth encrustation.
2¾ in. (7 cm.) long
LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD/EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 2000-1700 BC
The soft, pale yellow, semi-translucent plaque appears to be fragmentary and is carved on both sides as a face in profile, which is detailed with a large eye, and with a prominent, bulbous nose and a thick-lipped mouth along one edge, while there are notches carved along the top and opposite edge. There is a single hole drilled from both sides at the narrow end. There is some earth encrustation.
2¾ in. (7 cm.) long
Provenance
J.T. Tai & Co. Inc., New York, May 15, 1963.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
A Private Foundation.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
A Private Foundation.
Literature
D.J. Dohrenwend, 'Jade Demonic Images from Early China', Art Orientalis, vol. 10, 1975, pp. 55-78, pl. 6, fig. 16.
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Michael Bass
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