A WHITE JADE ‘TRIPLE HUANG’ BI DISC

QIJIA CULTURE, CIRCA 2300-1500 BC

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A WHITE JADE ‘TRIPLE HUANG’ BI DISC
QIJIA CULTURE, CIRCA 2300-1500 BC
All three flat arc-shaped sections are carved 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.
4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

The Yangdetang Collection, Taipei, acquired prior to 1999

Literature

Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, pl. 48

Exhibited

National Palace Museum, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, Catalogue, pl. 48

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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.

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