Re: Re: A Real Pig Head Bead for those who loves Chinese beads and cultures | |||||
Re: Re: A Real Pig Head Bead for those who loves Chinese beads and cultures -- cicada | Post Reply | Edit | Forum | Where am I? |
first I want to give some notes for this pig head bead.
It is of a type of hongshan culture jadeware which you could find in some exhibitions but no official excavation example.
yes as you said 4 ears 4 eyes 4 snouts make 4 faces of pig dragon for 4 directions.
acctually I personally think it is more like a macehead or symbol of some kind of power rather than just wear.
below is some examples of the same kind.
some are from taiwan Zhendan collection
http://www.aurora.org.tw/
they have a lot of materpiece of ancient chinese jadeware.
R.M.