4 in. (10 cm.) wide, box

Sold at Christie's London, 7 June 1993, lot 1

Nicole De Bisscop, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Brussels, 1995, p. 38, no. 8

Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Kredietbank Gallery, Brussels, 25 October - 17 December 1995; Kreietbank Luxembourg, 1 February - 13 April 1996, no. 8

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The thick-walled cong is of rounded square shape and carved at the corners with two stacked face-like motifs, the upper masks with two narrow bands carved with parallel lines above a pair of circular eyes and a raised horizontal band suggesting a mouth, and the lower masks with a slightly raised band connecting two large oval eyes incised with concentric lines around a circular center, above a further horizontal 'mouth'. The olive-green stone has brown an buff markings.