EA-CHAOYANG-001 - museum specimen
Jade insect-head pendant pair
China - Chaoyang, Liaoning; typologically attributed to the Hamin Mangha type of Hongshan culture - East Asia
Function not recorded Candidate only
玉虫首匕形器
Source term: yu chongshou bixingqi (jade insect-head bi-shaped object)
玉虫首匕形器 (yù chóngshǒu bǐxíngqì): “jade insect-head bi-shaped object,” the proposed type name used here provisionally.
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.
亚腰部鼓凸有一对钻孔。
The bulging waist is drilled through from the two sides.
Zhang Pengfei, China Cultural Relics News, 23 April 2024, p. 6.
- Object
- 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
- Published as insect-form pendants; no acoustic use is recorded.
- Source
- 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. The article describes two objects confiscated in Chaoyang in 2015 and now held by the Chaoyang Museum
- Source location
- p. 6, Figs. 3–4
- Source confidence
- low Chaoyang Museum / city storage anchor (2 Sanyan Road, Shuangta District); not an archaeological findspot.