HONGSHAN CULTURE, CIRCA 3900-3000 BC

Details

A JADE TOOTHED ANIMAL MASK ORNAMENT
HONGSHAN CULTURE, CIRCA 3900-3000 BC
6 1⁄2 in. (16.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 21 November 1997

Literature

Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 86, no. 13

Exhibited

The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar Hongshan jade toothed ornament from the Yangdetang Collection, which has a shorter and wider proportion and with five pairs of 'teeth', sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Chinese Archaic Jades from The Yangdetang Collection, 29 November 2017, lot 2704 (fig. 1).

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