apr 19, 3300 BC - Jade Cong

Description:

Date: 3,300 BCE ~ 2,200 BCE

Artist: unkown

Medium: Jade

Location:
original: Liangzhu, China
current: Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology, Hangzhou

Function:
- show power / wealth
- protect in after life / telling one what happens after death
- connection to nature

Form:
- engravings are very precise
- engravings are sanded
- jade is hard to create things out of so people needed lots of time to create this
- shows how important culture believed congs were

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