TWO 'TAOTIE' MASK JADE CARVINGS

Description:

China, probably late Shang dynasty, ca. 1200 B.C.
B. 8,4-8,9 cm
Of light to dark brown, translucent jade with one and two small perforations, the larger jade with stylized face worked in double lines, the remaining decoration in single lines, the smaller jade completely decorated in double lines.
From the Zeileis collection, assembled in the 1980s and 90s
Published in: Friedrich Georg Zeileis, 'Ausgewählte Chinesische Jade aus sieben Jahrtausenden', Gallspach, 1994, no. 97, pp. 118-119 - The larger jade chipped at one corner