A VERY RARE AND UNUSUALLY LARGE DARK GREEN JADE BI

LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD, NORTHWEST CHINA, CIRCA 2000 BC

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A VERY RARE AND UNUSUALLY LARGE DARK GREEN JADE BI
LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD, NORTHWEST CHINA, CIRCA 2000 BC
Of somewhat irregular thickness and still retaining the original cutting line on one side, as well as the cutting marks on the walls of the central hole which was drilled from both sides, the semi-translucent stone of variegated shades of dark green with some brown veining and opaque brownish-green areas at the outer rim
13 3/8 in. (34.1 cm.) diam.

Provenance

A.W. Bahr Collection, Weybridge, 1963.

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Lot Essay

Large jade bi of this rich green color appear to be quite rare. One of smaller size (22 cm. diam.) is illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, p. 155, no. 7:6, where the author ascribes it to northwest China, c. 2000-1000 BC. As with the present bi it retains its cutting line on one side and is also somewhat translucent.

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