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A RARE IVORY-WHITE ‘MASK’ PENDANT, HUANG, NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LIANGZHU CULTURE
奥地利
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A RARE IVORY-WHITE ‘MASK’ PENDANT, HUANG, NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LIANGZHU CULTURE
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published: Myrna Myers (ed.) & Filippo Salviati (auth.), The Language of Adornment. Chinese Ornaments of Jade, Crystal, Amber and Glass, Paris, 2002, no. 8.

China, c. 2500 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 opaque stone completely calcified and of an ivory-white tone.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Overall good condition, commensurate with age. Expected wear, signs of prolonged burial, traces of weathering and erosion, extensive calcification, two chips, small losses, minuscule nibbling here and there.

Weight: 54 g
Dimensions: Length 11.2 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 closely related and similarly calcified jade huang with mask, unearthed from Pingyao, Yuhang, Hangzhou, and now in the Liangzhu Museum, illustrated by Liu Bin, ‘Eighty Years of Liangzhu Discovery, 1936–2016’, Jades for Life and Death, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution (digital publication), fig. 2h, and described by the author as a ‘major jade artifact’. Compare a closely related and similarly calcified jade huang with mask in the Jade Gallery of the Shanghai Museum, photographed by Gary Lee Todd and published on Wikimedia Commons. Compare a related Liangzhu jade ornament with mask, dated mid-3rd millennium BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 18.63.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Zacke, Vienna, 27 June 2025, lot 144
Price: EUR 4,160
Description: A rare celadon and russet jade ‘mask’ pendant, huang, Liangzhu culture
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, manner of carving, motif, and size (11.1 cm).

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