A rare jade 'mask' pendant necklace, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture | 新石器時代良渚文化　獸面紋玉串飾

Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 30.

Tiffany Chen, Selected Works of Jade, Aurora Art Museum, Taipei, 2003, pl. 29.

Comprising thirty-one small beads and a semi-circular huang pendant decorated with a mythical beast-face pattern, the present set of necklaces is one of the rarest examples as most of the Liangzhu jade bead necklace found are undecorated. See a related jade bead necklace, Liangzhu culture, excavated from No. 1 Tomb of Sidun, Wujin county, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Yang Boda, Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], Hebei, 2005, no. 216; See another related huang pendant with similar decoration excavated from Fanshan (M23:67), Zhejiang province, illustrated in Liangzhu wenhua yuqi, Hong Kong, 1989, p.119, pl.156.

展覽

鄧淑蘋，《羣玉別藏續集》，故宮博物院，台北，1999年，編號30

出版

陳臻儀，《古玉選粹》，震旦藝術博物館，台北，2003年，圖版29

此串玉管項飾以三十一顆短勒與一個獸面玉璜連串組成。青黃色玉質。相對大部分出土的素面玉管串飾較為少見。參看1978年江蘇省武進縣寺墩1號墓出土良渚文化玉串飾，現藏於南京博物院，見楊柏達，《中國玉器全集》，河北，2005年，圖216。另見浙江省餘杭縣反山曾出土的一件類似的良渚玉璜（M23:67），其左右兩端同樣各有一側淺浮雕的鳥紋，鳥首向外，見《良渚文化玉器》，香港，1989年，頁119，圖版156。