A JADE CARVING 'CONG'

Description:

China, Neolithic period, probably Liangzhu culture, ca. 3000 B.C.
H. 24,3 cm
Of red-brownish jade with light and dark brown discolourations and calcifications, with five registers and stylized faces.
From the Zeileis collection, assembled in the 1980s and 90s
Publiziert in: Friedrich Georg Zeileis, 'Ausgewählte Chinesische Jade aus sieben Jahrtausenden', Gallspach, 1994, no. 30, pp. 36-37 - Old chips along the surface and cracks within the stone's inclusions