Lot Essay
A related jade notched disc of larger size (15.6 cm.), dated to the late Shang-early Western Zhou period, 13th-11th century BC, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 27.15. (Fig. 1)
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SAM AND MYRNA MYERS
A RARE PALE GREEN AND BEIGISH-BROWN JADE NOTCHED DISC
NORTHWEST CHINA, LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD-EARLY BRONZE AGE, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM BC
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A RARE PALE GREEN AND BEIGISH-BROWN JADE NOTCHED DISC
NORTHWEST CHINA, LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD-EARLY BRONZE AGE, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM BC
The disc is carved along the outer edge with three groupings of deeply cut pointed notches interspersed with further shallow and blunt grooves. The stone is of a pale greenish-beige tone with areas of brown and cream.
4 5/8 in. (11.5 cm.) diam.
NORTHWEST CHINA, LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD-EARLY BRONZE AGE, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM BC
The disc is carved along the outer edge with three groupings of deeply cut pointed notches interspersed with further shallow and blunt grooves. The stone is of a pale greenish-beige tone with areas of brown and cream.
4 5/8 in. (11.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Paris, by 1980.
Literature
J. Desroches, Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art, Italy, 2016, p. 47, no. 81.
Exhibited
From the Lands of Asia, Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex, Montreal, 16 November 2016-19 March 2017; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 4 March-19 August 2018.
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Rufus Chen (陳嘉安)
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