{"id":"EA-DEFU-001","label":"Incised-eye jade insect-head pendant","people_or_site":"De Fu Museum collection, Chaoyang","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":"An opaque green-jade pendant, 8 × 2 × 0.6 cm, with a c. 0.3 cm perforation through its narrow waist. Its small rounded upper end bears two incised arcs read as eyes; below, a leaf-shaped body is slightly convex on one face and concave on the other, with a thick centre and thin edges.","function_summary":"Published as an insect-form pendant; no acoustic use is recorded.","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, Fig. 5","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"De Fu Museum storage anchor (Murong Ancient Street, Shuangta District, Chaoyang); not an archaeological findspot.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"A tiny pair of incised arcs gives this eight-centimetre jade pendant a face. Below that rounded head, its body pinches into a perforated neck and then broadens into a pale leaf, gently hollowed on one side. The effect is not abstract geometry so much as a creature paused in stone — the reason Zhang Pengfei singled it out as the clearest “insect-head” form.","pull_quote":"顶端由上向两侧分别琢出两道弧形线，突显左右两端，形似凸出的双眼。","pull_quote_translation":"Two curved lines are cut from the top toward each side, emphasizing the two ends like protruding eyes.","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.","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":"Typological Hongshan attribution; no original find context.","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, Fig. 5. The author recorded the piece in a 2012–16 survey; it is held by the De Fu Museum, Chaoyang","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, Fig. 5. The author recorded the piece in a 2012–16 survey; it is held by the De Fu Museum, Chaoyang","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, Fig. 5. The author recorded the piece in a 2012–16 survey; it is held by the De Fu Museum, Chaoyang","date_citation_display":"Zhang 2024, China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6","object_display":"An opaque green-jade pendant, 8 × 2 × 0.6 cm, with a c. 0.3 cm perforation through its narrow waist. Its small rounded upper end bears two incised arcs read as eyes; below, a leaf-shaped body is slightly convex on one face and concave on the other, with a thick centre and thin edges.","function_display":"Published as an insect-form pendant; no acoustic use is recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"museum collection","display_name":"Incised-eye jade insect-head pendant","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-defu-001-fig5.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-defu-001-fig5_thumb.png","alt":"De Fu Museum jade insect-head pendant: pale and mottled, with an elongated rounded body, incised head details and a circular hole through its narrow 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":"De Fu Museum jade insect-head pendant, perforated through its neck."},"slug":"ea-defu-001-de-fu-museum-collection-chaoyang"}