- Provenance
- Provenance information is currently unavailable
- Description
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Flat plaque ornament with semi-human face; almond-shaped eyes; wide mouth revealing fangs pointing up and down and one row of teeth; biconically perforated round earrings flank the face; ornate nose design; light green jade with traces of calcification below.
- Published References
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- Alfred Salmony. Carved Jade of Ancient China. Berkeley, 1938. cat. 6-7, pl. 31.
- Doris J. Dohrenwend. Jade Demonic Images from Early China. vol. 10 Washington and Ann Arbor, 1975. fig. 12.
- Elizabeth Childs-Johnson. Ritual and Power: Jades of Ancient China. Exh. cat. New York, April 22, 1988 - June 18, 1988. cat. 87, p. 23.
- Minao Hayashi. Chūgoku kodai no ishibōchōkei gyokki to kotsusenkei gyokki (Two Types of Prehistorical Chinese Ceremonial Jade Objects: Stone Harvesting Knives and Bone Spades). No. 54, 1982. p. 46, fig. 50.
- Wu Hung. Yizu zaoqi de yushi diaoke (A Group of Early Jade and Stone Carvings)., 1979. p. 69, fig. 10.
- Elizabeth Childs-Johnson Fang Gu. Yuqi shidai: Meiguo bowuguan cang Zhongguo zaoqi yuqi (The Jade Age: Early Chinese Jades in American Museums). Beijing, 2009. pp. 150-151.
- Minao Hayashi. Chūgoku kogyokuki sōsetsu. Tokyo, 1999. p. 251, fig. 5: 119.
- New Frontiers in Global Archaeology (Quan qiu hua bei jing xia kao gu xue xin qian yan): Defining China's Ancient Traditions (jie du Zhongguo gu dai chuan tong). New York, 2008. p. 306.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Jades for Life and Death
- Rights Statement
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Non-exclusive license