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100. An Archaic Jade Ring ( Huan )
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 5th–4th Century B.C.
with wide central aperture, carved on both sides with a lively pattern of raised comma-spirals
between narrow wedge-shape plain borders, the translucent pale yellowish green stone with
natural russet brown markings.
Diameter 3 inches (7.7 cm)

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101. A P air of Archaic Jade Dragon Beads
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 6th–5th Century B.C.
each miniature white jade feline beast carved in the round in a walking posture, the flattened body
with relief scrolls on the flanks, the legs also scroll motifs and the small head with scroll-form
muzzle, drilled transversely through the back for stringing.

Length 1 ⁄8 inches (2.7 cm) each
1
Compare the very similar jade bead illustrated by Zhang, Shanghai bowuguan cangpin yanjiu daxi: Zhongguo gudai yuqi
(Research series of the Shanghai Museum Collection: Ancient Chinese Jades), Shanghai, 2009, p. 134, no. 96.

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102. An Archaic Jade Disc ( Bi )
Late Eastern Zhou, circa 3rd Century B.C.

decorated on both sides with a grid pattern of raised comma-spirals accentuated with incised
curling lines within raised angled borders, the pale yellowish green stone with deep brown and
russet markings and showing superficial cloudy white alteration from burial on one side, the surface
polished to a high gloss
Diameter 3 ⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)
3
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 84
A similar jade bi disc in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art is illustrated by Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States
Period: Change and Continuity, 480–222 B.C., Washington D.C., 1982, p. 170, no. 121.

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