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One-tier tube (<em>cong</em> 琮) with masks
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Tubular ring with four angles slightly projecting, a variation of the type ts'ung [cong] 琮, possibly a bracelet; translucent, mottled creams, browns, and traces of gray green; light sprinklings of incipient disintegration; decoration: channeled and in low relief; four rectangles with t'ao-t'ieh [taotie] 饕餮 masks carved in two planes and meeting in center of face. (Rims have old smoothed breaks.)
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineOne-tier tube (<em>cong</em> 琮) with masks. ca. 3300-ca. 2250 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
