A BLACK AND GREEN JADE CONG

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

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Description:

China, Neotlithic period, probably Liangzhu culture
ca. 8 x 8 x 6,5 cm
Barely translucent jade with large calcified areas, with large central hole of 62 mm, drilled from both sides against each other. The corners of the horizontally divided into two registers quadrant show two long and one short, raised worked out ledge, below the same decoration is repeated again.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired in the early 1990s from E. & J. Frankel in New York - South German private property
Publ. Zeileis, "Selected Jades from Seven Millennia," 1994, no. 27, pp. 32-33.
At the bottom and at one corner old chipped

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