AN ALTERED JADE THREE-SECTION BI

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, NORTHWEST CHINA, QIJIA CULTURE, 2ND MILLENIUM BC

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AN ALTERED JADE THREE-SECTION BI
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, NORTHWEST CHINA, QIJIA CULTURE, 2ND MILLENIUM BC
All three flat arc-shaped sections cut from the same piece of jade and fashioned with straight edges and a conical hole drilled at each end in order for the three sections to be attached to each other, the now- opaque stone of buff color and with satin-like polish
5 1/16 in. (13 cm.) diam. (3)

Provenance

A.W. Bahr Collection, Weybridge, 1963.

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Lot Essay

A three-part disc, bi, similarly formed by three huang, dated Neolithic or Shang, 2000-1500 BC, from Western China, and now in the British Museum, is illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, p. 159, fig. 1.

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