Three jade beads, a jade earring, jue and a jade ornament, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture, Songze culture or Xuejiagang culture | 新石器時代 良渚及崧澤文化或薛家崗文化 玉玦一件、玉珠三件 及 玉飾一件

Three beads and ornament:

Ku Ngar Antique Limited, Hong Kong, 4th December 2000.

玉珠及玉飾： 

古雅閣，香港，2000年12月4日

The plain slit ring, jue, is of the style of jade found in Liangzhu-culture sites. Compare a Liangzhu-culture slit ring in the Yuhang Museum, illustrated in Gu Fang, The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2005, vol. 8, p. 61. The three jade beads and the thin ornament are related to a set of jade ornaments of the Xuejiagang culture, published in Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], Shijiazhuang, 1992, vol. 1, pl.77. The thin ornament probably served as hair decoration, similar ornaments were unearthed from sites of the Songze culture. See a few Songze-culture jade hair ornaments illustrated in Gu Fang, The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2005, vol. 8, p. 20.

玉玦光素，開孔斜出，有良渚文化風格。可參考余杭博物館藏一件良渚文化玉玦，見古方，《中國出土玉器全集》，北京，2005年，卷8，頁61。三件玉珠及片狀玉飾則與薛家崗文化一例頗近似，見《中國玉器全集》，石家莊，1992年，卷1，圖版77。此類片狀玉飾或用於裝飾頭髮，崧澤文化亦有出土類似風格器物，比較數件崧澤文化玉頭飾，見古方，《中國出土玉器全集》，北京，2005年，卷8，頁20。