AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND LARGE WHITE JADE 'TIGER' DISC, BI
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND LARGE WHITE JADE 'TIGER' DISC, BI

EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)

细节
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) high, box
来源
The Chinhuatang Collection, Taipei, acquired prior to 1999
The Yangdetang Collection
出版
Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, pl. 199, pp. 286-287
展览
National Palace Museum, Collectors Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, Catalogue, pl. 199

荣誉呈献

Priscilla Kong
Priscilla Kong

拍品专文

The present disc shows an intricate combined design of bi and pendant. Similar discs are known with pierced auspicious messages incorporated as part of the design, thus it is likely that these discs functioned as talismans or played symbolic roles during special occasions. Compare to an earlier Western-Han jade disc of similar design with addorsed dragons (25.9 cm.) discovered from the tomb of Prince Liu Sheng in Hebei province, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 4, 1993, pl. 88, p. 68; and a Easter-Han example surmounted by openwork interlocking chi dragons, illustrated ibid., pl. 242, p. 174.

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