Female dancer

Chinese Collection

Accession Nr.: 61.327.1
Type: jade; stone carving
Date of production:
5th–3rd centuries BC
Easter Zhou dynasty
Place of production:
Materials: jade
Dimensions: width: 3.1 cm
length: 8 cm
vastagság: 0.5 cm
Belief in afterlife already existed in the ancestor worship of the Shang period. Full burial suits and jades plugging the orifices meant the climax of the use of jades in the cult of the dead, characteristic of the Han period.