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† A RARE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘MASK’ PENDANT, HUANG, LIANGZHU CULTURE
奥地利
06月27日 下午5点 开拍
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? A RARE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘MASK’ PENDANT, HUANG, LIANGZHU CULTURE

Expert authentication: Dr. Gu Fang has examined the present lot and confirms its authenticity and the dating above, noting the style of cutting, workmanship, thickness and quality of stone with decomposed areas indicating burial all suggest a dating to 3200-2300 BC. He assessed it as a piece of notably good quality. A signed copy of Dr. Gu's expertise, dated 14 February 2024, accompanies this lot.
Dr. Gu Fang (born 1962) is an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese art and a leading authority on jades. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the prestigious Beijing University in 1986 and later studied at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he now serves as a Senior Fellow specializing in archaeological excavations and Chinese jade research. A former visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he has authored several books on Chinese jades, including the 15-volume The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China (2007), one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, as well as Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China (2012).

China, late Neolithic period, 3200-2300 BC. The arc-shaped huang finely carved with a prominently godhead mask located at the center of the front side. Two small holes are drilled for suspension. The semi-translucent stone of a superb celadon color with russet shadings, dark green and icy white inclusions, and small areas of opaque calcification.

Provenance: From a private collection in New York.
Condition: Very good condition with expected old wear, minor signs of weathering and erosion, tiny nibbles and small losses to edges which have smoothened over time, the stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into small hairline cracks.

Weight: 60.5 g
Dimensions: Length 11.1 cm

Huang were a part of the elite adornments during the Neolithic period, especially within Hongshan, Liangzhu, and Longshan cultures. These were worn along with headgear, knee decorations, elaborate beaded necklaces, and other body ornaments, all made primarily from jade. Dr. Elizabeth Childs-Johnson dubs these cultures a part of the ‘Jade Age’, a period during which an abundance of jade objects accompanied the elite burials for the first time. The imagery carved on these jade adornments was highly standardized, and the most prominent image, which appears on this lot, is that of the godhead (also called a spirit person, shenren, or an anthropomorphized deity). This image is flat, often covered in cosmic cloud scrolls, and has zoomorphic attributes combining bird and semi-human elements.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related Liangzhu culture jade arc-shaped pendant with godhead incision work, 6.3 cm long, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number S1987.734. Compare a related Liangzhu culture jade ornament with a similar mask, 8.3 cm wide, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 18.63.



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