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The Tang dynasty and earlier objects offered in the sale have been in
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A LARGE JADE BI DISC AN ARCHAIC JADE OPENWORK 'DRAGON' PLAQUE, HUANG
Warring States Period Warring States Period
The olive-green stone carved on both sides with raised comma spirals The serpent coiled in an S-shape with the head turning back, carved
in a cross-hatch pattern under a central aperture. on either side with neatly lined spirals on low rounded bosses, the
7 3/8in (18.8cm) diam dragon head and forked tail detailed with simple lines, the dark green
stone altered in burial to cloudy beige, pierced at the center top for
$3,000 - 5,000 stringing.
7 1/8in (18.1cm) long
戰國 穀紋玉璧
$3,000 - 5,000
Compare the very similar jade bi disc from the Charles Lang Freer
Collection, now in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian 戰國 青玉龍形璜
Institution, Washington D.C., illustrated by Thomas Lawton, Chinese
Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480- Compare the jade dragon plaque of closely related form and design,
222 B.C., Washington D.C., 1982, p. 172, no. 123; another very from the Charles Lang Freer Collection and now in the National Asian
similar jade bi disc also from the Freer Collection is illustrated on the Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., illustrated by
museum's website, accession number F1918.27. Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change
and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Washington D.C., 1982, p. 154, no.
101, also illustrated on the museum's website, accession number
F1917.372, described as Warring States, Changsha, Chu Kingdom,
probably Hunan province.
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