A Rare Early Jade Necklace Ornament

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3000 BC

細節

A Rare Early Jade Necklace Ornament
Neolithic Period, circa 3000 BC
One half of a horizontal, bar-like pendant of flattened oval section, with a pierced angular terminal at one end where a shallow groove extends from the flat upper edge to the small hole on one side, the other end pierced with a vertical channel into which two deep grooves extend from the flat oval end, the jade now opaque and of mottled buff, reddish-brown and dark grey color
4 3/4in. (11.4cm.) long
Falk Collection no. 584.

來源

Christie's New York, 2 December 1986, lot 248.

拍品專文

For an illustration of how this pendant half would have attached to the other half, see the line drawings illustrated by Luo Zhongzhen, 'Preliminary Studies on Neolithic Jades Unearthed from the Beiyinyangying Site in Nanjing', East Asian Jade: Symbol of Excellence, Tang Chung (ed.), vol. 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998, p. 229, fig. 25.1:15, 17.