SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC

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A BUFF JADE COLLARED DISC
SHANG DYNASTY, C. 1600-1046 BC
The disc is carved with a large central aperture surrounded by a narrow ring rising above the encircling, flat disc. The stone has been altered to a mottled light caramel and buff colour.

6 ¼ in. (15.9 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Hong Kong in 1993

Lot Essay

Compare to two smaller jade collared discs with similar altered surfaces, one (10.1 cm. diam.) was excavated at Yinxu in Anyang, Henan province, now in the Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, see Gems of Yinxu: Catalogue of Selected Artifacts from Anyang in the Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, 2009, p. 190, no. 165 (R000912); the other (11.3 cm. diam.) incised with an imperial poem by the Qianlong Emperor and used by him as a cup stand, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Wisdom and Ignorance of Emperor Qianlong: perceptions on ancient jade as viewed from his poems, Taipei, 2018, 198-199, no. 32 (fig. 1)

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