Description

Antique Chinese Carved Jade Bi - Rare. Finely Carved With Sharp Detail And Silky Soft Patina. Aperture Approximately 1 1/2". Mounted On A Museum Style Stand.

Dimensions

6 1/4" Diameter

Dating

Han Dyansty

Notes

For Three Similar Examples See; Chinese Archaic Jades, C.T. Loo, 1950, Plate XXXVIII, #2, 3, and #6 Listed As Eastern Chou. For Another Similar Example See; Christie's - New York, September 17, 2008 Lot #343 A LARGE PALE GREY JADE DISC, BI HAN DYNASTY, 2ND-1ST CENTURY BC Both sides with a plain inner and outer border, with a wide band of comma spirals set within an inner striated border and an outer band carved with outward-facing bovine masks with long, scrolling horns, the pale greenish-grey stone with some opaque beige alteration 8 5/16 in. (21 cm.) diam., box Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. MALCOLM E. MCPHERSON Provenance Private collection, Washington, DC, early 1970s. Lot Notes A group of silmilarly carved bi, dated c. 122 BC, were found on the lower part of the jade suit of the King of Nanyue at Xinggang, Guangzhou, Guangdong province. See J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 73, fig. 67, and Gu Fang, The Complete Collection of Unearthed Jades in China, vol. 11, Beijing, 2005, no. 51. Compare two other similar bi illustrated by the Institute of Archaeology, Excavations of the Han Tombs at Mancheng, vol. II, Beijing, 1980, pl. CCX, figs. 1 and 2.

$19,500.00 USD

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