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An archaic mottled brown and celadon jade disc (Bi), Neolithic period, Qijia culture | 新石器時代 齊家文化 玉璧

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September 19, 02:55 PM GMT

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An archaic mottled brown and celadon jade disc (Bi)

Neolithic period, Qijia culture

新石器時代 齊家文化 玉璧


Japanese wood box (3)


Diameter 6¼ in., 15.9 cm

Collection of A.W. Bahr (1877-1959), 1963.

Collection of Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987).

Christie's New York, 14th-15th September 2009, lot 40.

Linyushanren Collection.


巴爾(1877-1963)收藏,1963年

亞瑟•M•賽克勒 (1913-1987) 收藏

紐約佳士得2009年9月14至15日,編號40

臨宇山人收藏

Compare three jade bi of a very similar stone from the Qijia culture, excavated from Houliugou village, Jingning county, Gansu province, now preserved in the Jingning Museum, illustrated in Ye Maolin et al., ed., Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji / The Complete Collection of Unearthed Jades in China, vol. 15, Beijing, 2005, pls 3, 4, and 5, together with another similar example, discovered in Huangniangniangtai, Wuwei city, Gansu province, now in the Gansu Provincial Museum, pl. 1.