A CALCIFIED MOTTLED BROWN CELADON JADE ‘BI’ DISC

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, GANSU REGION, QIJIA CULTURE (2200-1600BC)

DIAMETER: 20.1CM

The beautifully patinated bi disc is characteristically channelled with a circular aperture. The pale celadon stone is charmingly mottled with dark brown and black inclusions, dappled with calcified patches of creamy-white tones.

SIMILAR EXAMPLES

Compare a jade ‘bi’ disc also from northwest China in the Neolithic period, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pp. 156-157, Catalogue No. 7:7; and another from the Hotung collection, see ibid., Catalogue No. 7:8 and p. 22, fig. 6.

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