A celadon jade three-section bracelet, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture | 新石器時代 良渚文化 青玉三聯鐲

Ku Ngar Antique Limited, Hong Kong, 3rd November 2000.

古雅閣，香港，2000年11月3日

The three sections should have been broken apart from a bracelet, and continued to be used after drilling holes and reconnecting them. Similar jade rings have been found in Liangzhu sites. Compare a Liangzhu-culture bracelet broken into two pieces, excavated in Qingpu, Shanghai, published in Liangzhu Wenhua Yuqi [Jade of Liangzhu Culture], Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 95.

青玉質，素面無紋，打磨細膩，寶光蘊含，原器分三節，每節兩端穿孔。

此環應為手鐲，舊時斷為三節而鑽孔連綴繼續使用。良渚地區有類似玉環，比較上海青浦出土一件良渚文化玉鐲，斷為兩節而重穿，見《良渚文化玉器》，香港，1989年，編號95。