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Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧) by Charles Lang Freer, Jiantang Wang — VisualArtsDB

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Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)

Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)

Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)

Charles Lang Freer Jiantang Wang

2000

Medium: Jade (nephrite)
Genre: Ceremonial object
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Ceremonial Object

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nephriteChinese ArtjadeArtLate Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)Charles Lang Freer collection

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Perforated disk of the type pi [bi] 璧; bored from both sides, leaving pronounced median ridge; richly mottled olive greens and reddish to dark browns; traces of cream-colored incipient disintegration on obverse, more plentiful on reverse; circular saw marks on obverse. (Rim chipped in several places.)

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