AN ARCHAISTIC SOAPSTONE CONG 19th-20th centuryAN ARCHAISTIC SOAPSTONE CONG19th-20th centuryCarved in the style of an ancient ritual jade cong, the square tube with thick collars sectioned into four tiers of repeated panels over angled corners, each corner carved and engraved with a stylized 'mask,' separated by a plain vertical band on each side, the cylindrical interior hollowed, the translucent reddish-brown stone polished smooth inside and out. 5 5/8in (14.4cm) high十九-二十世紀 壽山石仿古琮Provenance:Hirano Kotoken, Tokyo, 1990來源：東京平野古陶軒，1990 年Compare the slightly larger archaistic jade cong of more elaborate form, re-purposed as a censer, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Through the Prism of the Past: Antiquarian Trends in Chinese Art of the 16th to 18th Century, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2004, p. 51, pl. I-26, attributed to the 17th century, late Ming to early Qing period.