ANTIQUE CHINA HONGSHAN JADE ELEPHANT MAN Y0794

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ANTIQUE CHINA HONGSHAN JADE ELEPHANT MAN Y0793 Note: Color in the photos might deviate slightly from the relevant item because of the objective reasons. Description Welcome to bid on this excellent and fancy stone statue, dating back to Hongshan Culture . It has a human being's body but an ELEPHANT'head, which adds this statue some masculine beauty.The statue is sitting,which shows us a peaceful feeling and increases more vitality.Thus it creates a strange wild nature. This mysterious Neolithic artifact has a magnificent colored patina that only time and earth could create . Let's go back to the ancient time,let's get back to our natural instincts! Hongshan Culture Hongshan Culture formed in a late New Stone Age, about 5000-6000 years ago. It was? mainly in western Liaohe region, including parts of Liaoning province, Inner Mongolian province and Hebei province today.The characteristic of Hongshan Culture is the coexistence of pottery and stone and jade wares.Among them,jade articles are especially outstanding, which vary from small ornaments to huge ritual ware.They played an important part in every aspect of the social functions at that time. Hongshan culture jade articles can be divided into five classes: tool class, such as axe, spin, rod, etc.; ornament class, such as ring, bracelet, pin, tube, etc.; ritual ware class, read more

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