ID 938
Lot 44 | AMULETT MIT MYTHISCHEM MASKENKOPF IN DER SELTENEN GEHÖRNTEN FORM
Estimate value
€ 4 800
Jade
China
Neolithische Kultur von Liangzhu, ca. 3300 - 2200 vor
HÖHE 4,1 CM, BREITE 5,15 CM, STÄRKE 7 - 8 MM
玉雕獸面紋護身符。中國,良渚文化,約公元前3300-2200 年。高 4.1厘米, 寬 5.15厘米,厚0.7 - 0.8厘米。維也納私人舊藏。
Diese kleine Amulettjade, ein dekorativer Anhänger, trägt das für Liangzhu typische großäugige Maskengesicht. Nach unten zu ist sie kreisförmig gerundet, nach oben markant gegabelt und stehen Hörner leicht schräg ab, in deren Mitte ein kürzeres gerades. Die etwas ins Ovale gehenden Felder um die Augen haben ein feinst geschliffenes Linienmuster, genauso, wie man es beispielsweise von den Cong kennt und die diesen Augen den unverkennbar rätselhaften Ausdruck verleihen. Zwischen den Augen befindet sich ein trapezoides Feld mit ähnlicher Linienzier, gleichfalls auf dem breit-geraden Mund. Dieses Gesicht hier scheint uns weniger dämonisch als vielmehr mystisch-überirdisch und hat dieses Amulett gewiss eine apotropäische Funktion gehabt. Die vorliegende Jade ist mehrheitlich gelbbraun bis rotbraun, die rotbraune Färbung ist vermutlich aufgrund von Oxydation des Eisenanteils entstanden, dazu gibt es verteilt weißliche Felder aufgrund von Alterung. Im fokussierten Durchlicht erscheint ein sehr roter Farbton. Glatte Rückseite, der Ösengang verläuft mittlings vertikal.
Dieser dreifach gehörnte Typus findet sich vergleichsweise in dem Buch “Chinese Jade - The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China” von Gu Fang und Li Hongjuan, das etwas größere Stück aus gleicher Zeit völlig weiß und wird als “ceremonialjade” bezeichnet.
Diese Jade wird in dem Buch von FILIPPO SALVIATI: THE MYSTERIOUS STONE: Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Han from private collections publiziert (Erscheinungstermin Frühjahr 2017). Notes by Prof. Salviati: This small ornament, shaped as a half disc with three projections on the top side, is one of the most common types of jades crafted by the Liangzhu culture and is documented mostly in sites in Yuhang county, Zhejiang province, such as the Yaoshan and Fanshan cemeteries. The front is decorated with an animal mask carved in low relief filled with tiny incised lines, while the back is plain. A perforation runs through the central projection from the top to the bottom of the jade, which is reddish in colour with opaque patches due to limited surface alteration of the stone. A three-pronged fitting of similar size and type of stone, decorated with a slightly more complex version of the mask motif, is in the Freer/Sackler galleries (acc. no. S1987.734): http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/edan/object.php?q=fsg_S1987.734 A selection of three-pronged fittings excavated from Liangzhu culture sites is presented in Zhejiang institute of cultural relics and archaeology, Liangzhu wenhua yuqi 良渚文化玉器 (Jades of the Liangzhu Culture), Wenwu chubanshe, Beijing 1990, pls.124-132.
Expertise: Wolfmar Zacken & Filippo Salviati
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