A RARE SMALL GRAYISH-GREEN JADE 'TOOTHED' PENDANT NEOLITHIC PERIOD, HONGSHAN CULTURE CA. 3500-3000 B.C. The curved plaque softly beveled at the edges and carved in shallow relief on both sides with a series of curvilinear ridges which create shallow grooves, one a gently undulating, horizontal groove, positioned below the slanting upper edge which projects outward at the tips, the other two grooves sharply curved downward to create broad, curved cusps at the sides as well as two pairs of closely spaced, tapering 'teeth' or tusks which flank another central pair of 'teeth', pierced with a large biconical hole and another smaller hole at the upper edge, the stone with soft lustrous polish and now almost completely altered to an opaque buff color, some traces of cinnabar and earth encrustation, some loss--1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) long
A RARE SMALL GRAYISH-GREEN JADE 'TOOTHED' PENDANT NEOLITHIC PERIOD, HONGSHAN CULTURE CA. 3500-3000 B.C. The curved plaque softly beveled at the edges and carved in shallow relief on both sides with a series of curvilinear ridges which create shallow grooves, one a gently undulating, horizontal groove, positioned below the slanting upper edge which projects outward at the tips, the other two grooves sharply curved downward to create broad, curved cusps at the sides as well as two pairs of closely spaced, tapering 'teeth' or tusks which flank another central pair of 'teeth', pierced with a large biconical hole and another smaller hole at the upper edge, the stone with soft lustrous polish and now almost completely altered to an opaque buff color, some traces of cinnabar and earth encrustation, some loss--1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) long
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