A JADE 'TOOTHED ANIMAL MASK' ORNAMENT AND A GREEN JADE 'FACE' PENDANT NEOLITHIC PERIOD, HONGSHAN CULTURE |

the first worked from a pale beige and brown stone, crisply decorated in openwork as a monster mask plaque with the lower edge centred with a row of teeth, the upper edge pierced with an aperture for suspension; the second of trapezoidal section with rounded edges, one side worked in low relief with a human face, the concave reverse centred with a raised ridge flanked by two connected apertures for suspension, the variegated rich moss-green stone accentuated with russet patches

The 'toothed animal mask' ornament: very minute nicks to the extremities, including one at the back of lower left corner approx. 0.3 x 0.1 cm, as visible in the catalogue photo. Each with typical natural inclusions and flaws in stone.
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See a larger example of a comb-form pendant, also from the Peony Collection, illustrated in Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 20.