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PERLE IN FORM EINES CONG MIT MAGISCHEN GESICHTERN

Lot 43
28.04.2017 17:00UTC +01:00
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€ 1 800
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Event locationAustria, Wien
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ID 936
Lot 43 | PERLE IN FORM EINES CONG MIT MAGISCHEN GESICHTERN
Estimate value
€ 3 600
PERLE IN FORM EINES CONG MIT MAGISCHEN GESICHTERN
Jade
China
Liangzhu Kultur, ca. 3300-2200 vor
HÖHE 6 CM
神面紋玉琮。中國，良渚文化，約公元前3300-2200 年。高 6 厘米。維也納私人舊藏。

Diese einzelne Perle aus einer ganzen Kette hat die Form eines mehrstöckigen Cong mit der typischen Unterteilung, die aus mehreren Gesichtern besteht. Diese Gesichter bzw. Masken sind jeweils um die Ecken geführt, insgesamt sind es sechs. Nur die beiden mittleren haben die für Liangzhu so bezeichnend großen, vielfach umrandeten und stets rätselhaft und wie magisch wirkenden Augen. In den Gesichtern darunter und darüber sind die Augen einfache Kreise. Mehrere Zierbänder mit feinst eingeschliffenen Rillen lassen die Frage aufkommen, wie das damals und mit welchen Werkzeugen derart fein gearbeitet werden konnte. Getreu den großen Cong erweitert sich die Form dieses Kettengliedes nach einer Seite hin leicht und sind die Kopfseiten mit runden Krägen versehen. Weißliche Alterung der Jade.

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 bead is worked in the shape of a miniature cong with three alternating anthropomorphic and animal masks carved in relief at the corners. The masks are finely detailed with thin lines used to stress the large eyes and nose of the animal-like face carved at the centre, and with small spirals engraved between the bands that top the masks with human-like eyes placed at the top and bottom of the bead. The bead, drilled throughout its length with a tubular perforation, is carved from a red-orange type of nephrite similar to that used for the following Liangzhu three-pronged fitting: most of the surface is affected by alterations which have modified the jade and turned it chalky white. Lianzghu burials have yielded a vast amount of variously shaped beads which were used for ornamental purposes. The beads are the smallest of all Liangzhu items in jade and were obtained by re-working fragments derived from the carving of larger objects. Liangzhu beads with a square cross-section shaped as miniature cong, as the present Lot, have come to light mostly from sites in Jiangsu province such as Caoxieshan, Wu county; Fuquanshan, Qingpu county, Shanghai; and Sidun, Wujin, Changzhou: see 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, Zhejiang 1990, nos.70 and 175-177, and Huang Xuanpei, Gems of the Liangzhu Culture from the Shanghai Museum, Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong 1992, no.69.

Expertise: Wolfmar Zacken & Filippo Salviati
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