{"id":"EA-CHAOYANG-001","label":"Jade insect-head pendant pair","people_or_site":"Chaoyang Museum collection","country_current":"China","historic_region":"Chaoyang, Liaoning; typologically attributed to the Hamin Mangha type of Hongshan culture","macroregion":"East Asia / China","local_name":"玉虫首匕形器","source_term":"yu chongshou bixingqi (jade insect-head bi-shaped object)","source_language":"Chinese","object_description":"Two complete opaque green-jade objects confiscated in a 2015 anti-looting case. The first is 10.3 cm long and 0.62–0.75 cm thick, with a shallow U-shaped section and a waist perforation c. 0.34 cm; the second is 9 cm long and 0.72–0.83 cm thick, with a c. 0.43 cm waist perforation. Both have a small head-like upper end, narrowed neck, and leaf-shaped lower body.","function_summary":"Published as insect-form pendants, drilled to be strung and worn.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"zhang2024_jade_insect_head_bixingqi","source_type":"archaeological_interpretation","source_url":"http://www.zhongguowenwubao.com/portal/DigitPager/paperDetail/publishdate/2024-04-23/paperId/20663/id/104845","page_or_plate":"p. 6, Figs. 3–4","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Chaoyang Museum / city storage anchor (2 Sanyan Road, Shuangta District); not an archaeological findspot.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"The two jade pieces now held at Chaoyang Museum have the same head, neck, and leaf-body grammar as the Hamin Mangha forms, but are more formally finished: polished pale green stone, lifted brows or shallow grooves at the head, and a precise perforation through the narrowing below it. They reached the museum after a 2015 anti-looting seizure.","pull_quote":"亚腰部鼓凸有一对钻孔。","pull_quote_translation":"The bulging waist is drilled through from the two sides.","pull_quote_cite":"Zhang Pengfei, China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6.","term_gloss":"玉虫首匕形器 (yù chóngshǒu bǐxíngqì): “jade insect-head bi-shaped object,” Zhang Pengfei's name for the type, after its insect-like head.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":true,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 4500–3000 BC","date_qualification":"Hongshan culture (Hamin Mangha type), by style and workmanship.","date_basis":"typological_attribution","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"Zhang 2024, China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6","sources":[{"citation":"Zhang Pengfei, “东北史前玉器‘匕形器’之命名探讨” [A discussion of naming prehistoric Northeast Chinese jade bi-shaped objects], China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6, Figs. 3–4","url":"http://www.zhongguowenwubao.com/portal/DigitPager/paperDetail/publishdate/2024-04-23/paperId/20663/id/104845","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013031848/http://www.zhongguowenwubao.com/portal/DigitPager/paperDetail/publishdate/2024-04-23/paperId/20663/id/104845"}],"source_citations":"Zhang Pengfei, “东北史前玉器‘匕形器’之命名探讨” [A discussion of naming prehistoric Northeast Chinese jade bi-shaped objects], China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6, Figs. 3–4","source_display":"Zhang Pengfei, “东北史前玉器‘匕形器’之命名探讨” [A discussion of naming prehistoric Northeast Chinese jade bi-shaped objects], China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6, Figs. 3–4","date_citation_display":"Zhang 2024, China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6","object_display":"Two complete opaque green-jade objects confiscated in a 2015 anti-looting case. The first is 10.3 cm long and 0.62–0.75 cm thick, with a shallow U-shaped section and a waist perforation c. 0.34 cm; the second is 9 cm long and 0.72–0.83 cm thick, with a c. 0.43 cm waist perforation. Both have a small head-like upper end, narrowed neck, and leaf-shaped lower body.","function_display":"Published as insect-form pendants, drilled to be strung and worn.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"chaoyang museum","display_name":"Jade insect-head pendant pair","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-chaoyang-001-fig3.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-chaoyang-001-fig3_thumb.png","credit":"China Cultural Relics News (中国文物报), 23 April 2024","license":"In copyright — newspaper figure, rehosted at low resolution for non-commercial research","source_page":"http://www.zhongguowenwubao.com/portal/DigitPager/paperDetail/publishdate/2024-04-23/paperId/20663/id/104845","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The longer of the pair seized in 2015, 10.3 cm: a small head above a leaf-shaped body.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-chaoyang-001-fig4.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-chaoyang-001-fig4_thumb.png","alt":"A jade insect-head pendant in the Chaoyang Museum, pierced through its neck.","credit":"China Cultural Relics News (中国文物报), 23 April 2024","license":"In copyright — newspaper figure, rehosted at low resolution for non-commercial research","source_page":"http://www.zhongguowenwubao.com/portal/DigitPager/paperDetail/publishdate/2024-04-23/paperId/20663/id/104845","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The second of the pair, 9 cm, its back ridged below the head with raised arcs like an insect's body segments."}]},"slug":"ea-chaoyang-001-chaoyang-museum-collection"}