A pale green jade 'cloud-shaped' pendant Neolithic period, Hongshan culture | 新石器時代 紅山文化青玉勾雲形珮

Angus Forsyth, 'The Bei Zu Collection: Appreciation of a European Private Collection of Hongshan Jades', Art & Collection, no. 344, May 2021, pp. 164, fig. 8.

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霍璽，〈北祖藏玉：歐洲私人珍蓄紅山古玉鑑賞〉， 《典藏古美術》，第344期，2021年5月，頁164，圖8

A larger green jade ‘cloud’ ornament but of simpler outline has been excavated from a tomb at a Niuheliang site in Lingyuan county, Liaoning province, and is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum, see Guo Dashun & Hong Dianxu, Hongshan wenhua yuqi jianshang/A Study of Hongshan Culture Jades, Beijing, 2014, part 1, pl. 15; another piece from a Niuheliang site was included in exhibition Important Archaeological Finds in China (1985-86) at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1987, and is illustrated in Hu Jun, ‘Exhibition Highlights’, Orientations, vol. 18, no. 12, December 1987, p. 49. A photograph of Hongshan jades in situ in a Niuheliang tomb in Jianping county shows a large jade scroll ornament of related type resting on the deceased’s chest, with bi discs on either side of the ears and turtles near the hands; see Jenny F. So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 2019, p. 52, fig. 3.3.

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遼寧凌源牛河梁古墓出土一例，尺寸較大，現存遼寧省博物館，圖載於郭大順、洪殿旭，《紅山文化玉器鑑賞》，北京，卷1，2014年，圖版15；另一牛河梁遺址出土例，曾在1987年展於北京故宮博物院《中國重要考古發現（1985-86）》，圖見胡隽，〈Exhibition Highlights〉，《Orientations》，卷18，第12期，1987年12月，頁49。參考另一近例，出土時發現於先人遺體胸膛之上，耳邊放玉璧，手旁置玉鱉，見蘇芳淑，《Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums》，劍橋，麻省，2019年，頁52，圖3.3。