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Jade. China, late Neolithic period, probably Qijia culture, c.2200-1900 BC
The square body is lightly convex curved, stand and counter-stand are circular. The jade color is a milky green-white and because of iron content shows partly yellow-brown impact. With backlighting this is more visible. Interesting are the polishing traces of the inner opening - it was worked from both sides, a soft middle ridge is present. This cong – the counterparts to bi disks as symbols of the Heavenly-Cosmic – were burial objects. Due to the advanced age and long-time storage with weathering, an area on one corner is blackish with some material loss. 玉琮 - 齊家文化, 公元前2200-1900, 高3,3 厘米, 宽 5,7 CM
HEIGHT 3,3 CM, DIAMETER 5,7 CM
From an Austrian-Hungarian collection
Accompanying this jade, is an expertise by Univ. Prof. Dr. Filippo Salviati. He comments, i.e., in his expertise: There are several cong to which the present one can be compared: from an archaeological context, see the one excavated at Qingliangsi, Ruicheng, Shanxi Province (image). From public Asian collections, compare the cong in National Museum of History, Taiwan, reproduced in J. Johnston and Chan Lai Pik, 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade, Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, San Antonio Museum of Art, 2011, no.18. Finally, two comparable cong are in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, acc. nos. 1943.50.500 and 1943.50.508: they are reproduced in M. Loehr and L. G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, no.406 and 407, respectively.