NORTH-WEST CHINA, 2ND-1ST MILLENIUM BC

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A MOTTLED RUSSET AND PALE GREENISH-BUFF JADE HUAN DISC
NORTH-WEST CHINA, 2ND-1ST MILLENIUM BC
The flat disc has a central aperture carved from one side, and retains a few semi-translucent areas of pale greenish-white color, while most of the stone is now opaque and has acquired a russet color or patina.
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box, silk pouch

Provenance

Senshutey, Tokyo, Japan, February 1997.

Exhibited

Senshutey, Tokyo, Japan, The Collection of Chinese Art: Special Exhibition: 'Run through 10 years', 2006, p. 13, no. 6.

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Lot Essay

A jade huan of smaller size (8.57 cm.), illustrated in A Catalogue of the National Palace Museum's Special Exhibition of Circular Jade, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1 January 1995 - 1996, p. 57, no. 21, dated late Neolithic to Western Chou, exhibits the same kind of russet color, as well as an area of the original pale greenish-white stone, as seen on the present huan.

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