NEOLITHIC PERIOD, NORTH-WEST CHINA, CIRCA 2000-1500 BC

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A LARGE MOTTLED DARK GREEN JADE BI
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, NORTH-WEST CHINA, CIRCA 2000-1500 BC
Possibly Liangzhu Culture, the thick disc has a central aperture drilled from both sides which retains a cutting ridge on the interior wall, and is of dark green color with russet and buff markings throughout.
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Senshutey, Tokyo, Japan, July 1999.

Exhibited

Senshutey, Tokyo, Japan, The Collection of Chinese Art: Special Exhibition 'Run through 10 years', p. 13, no. 5.

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Lot Essay

A bi of similar size (23.4 cm.), and date, ascribed to north-west China, which appears to be of similar stone, is illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, 1995, p. 156, no. 7:7. See, also, another similar bi (22 cm.) ascribed to the Liangzhu Culture, in the Qing Court collection, illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum - 40 - Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 29, no. 26.

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