Tube (cong <em>琮</em>)
- Medium
- Jade (serpentine)
- Genre
- Ceremonial object
Styles
Tags
serpentine (mineral)Chinese ArtjadeWestern Zhou dynasty (ca. 1050 - 771 BCE)Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)ArtCharles Lang Freer collection
About
Squared hollow cylinder of the type ts’ung [cong] 琮; chocolate brown, finely mottled with gray. Smooth surface. (Two old cracks and some smoothed chips.) Serpentine.