Context (Acquisition Details)
Bought from S. M. Frank & Co., 25 Camomile St., E.C., London.
Event Date 1935
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Accession register description: 'Early jade tongue piece.'
Event Date 1935
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Analysis)
Note on catalogue card for 1935.287, written by Louis Clarke: 'Early jade piece stated to be used for putting on the tongue of the dead. These seem to me to have developed into the cicada. This is recognisable as a cicada. I have seen quite plain and almost flat ones. Possibly An Yang.'
Event Date 1935
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1935.287: 'Jade piece. Cicada.'
Event Date 1935
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cicada carved from brown, white and dark green mottled jade, probably nephrite. Triangular at each end. One side has a mid-ridge with a perpendicular incised line, and two incised lines as antennae at one end. The other side is convex.
Event Date 31/10/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad