Lot Essay
A comparable cong dating from the Middle Zhou period is in the British Museum (ex Eumorfopoulos Collection) and illustrated in O. Luzzatto-Bilitz, Antique Jade, London, 1969, p. 26, fig. 9.
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LIANGZHU CULTURE
Details
A small neolithic calcified grey jade cylinder, cong
Liangzhu Culture
The cylinder carved to the exterior with four protruding corners decorated each with an humanoid mask within a rectangle, formed by two spiral roundels above a triangular notch representing the eyes and mouth
3 cm. high
Liangzhu Culture
The cylinder carved to the exterior with four protruding corners decorated each with an humanoid mask within a rectangle, formed by two spiral roundels above a triangular notch representing the eyes and mouth
3 cm. high
Provenance
With J.J. Lally, New York, 1988.
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