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Lot Essay
The semi-translucent stone is of an even celadon tone. The top section has some purplish inclusions while the tip appears light russet.
The ornament has an elongated conical shape. The top is carved with an eagle’s head, with wings folded, legs straight, and talons tucked in. The conical tip would have functioned as a tenon tongue for the mortise hole cut into the corresponding element.
Hair ornaments with bird motifs form a distinctive category among jades from the Shejiahe Culture.
Compare with a similar jade ornament discovered at Zaolingang, Hubei Province, now in the Jingzhou Museum, illustrated in Jade Objects in the Shijiahe Culture, 2008, p. 109, no. 73 (fig. 1), which is shorter (5 cm.) and russet in tone.
(Text by Wang Mingda)
The ornament has an elongated conical shape. The top is carved with an eagle’s head, with wings folded, legs straight, and talons tucked in. The conical tip would have functioned as a tenon tongue for the mortise hole cut into the corresponding element.
Hair ornaments with bird motifs form a distinctive category among jades from the Shejiahe Culture.
Compare with a similar jade ornament discovered at Zaolingang, Hubei Province, now in the Jingzhou Museum, illustrated in Jade Objects in the Shijiahe Culture, 2008, p. 109, no. 73 (fig. 1), which is shorter (5 cm.) and russet in tone.
(Text by Wang Mingda)