WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

Details

A CARVED JADE DISC, BI
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
The disc is carved with a hexagonal grid pattern, the stone suffused with dark russet inclusions.
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1994

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Lot Essay

A jade disc of the same size and of similar hexagonal grid pattern was included in the National Palace Museum exhibition and illustrated in A Catalogue of National Palace Museum’s Special Exhibition of Circular Jade, Taipei, 2006, pl. 82 (fig. 1).

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