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51. A N eolithic Jade Ceremonial Blade ( Chan )
Longshan or Dawenkou Culture, circa 3000–2000 B.C.
of oblong shape, the sides widening very slightly toward the straight cutting edge beveled on both
sides, drilled with a neat circular aperture centered near the blunt end, the pale grayish-olive stone
with swirling darker cloudy markings, the surface softly polished.
Length 7¼ inches (18.5 cm)

Ex Collection Professor Max Loehr (1903–1988)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 30

Compare the similar tablet shape Neolithic jade blade in the British Museum illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the
Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 182, no. 10:15.
Another blade of very similar form is illustrated by Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in
the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 52, no. 24.

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52. A N eolithic Jade Disc ( Bi )
Longshan Culture, circa 3000–1700 B.C.

with wide central aperture, the thin sides tapering unevenly to the gently rounded outer rim, evenly
worked and smoothly polished all over, the stone of cream white color mottled in olive green and
yellowish brown and with scattered dark ‘root marks’.

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Diameter 5 ⁄8 inches (11.7 cm)
The specific form of this very well finished disc, with squared inner rim around the wide central aperture and very slightly
rounded sides tapering to the outer rim is typical of jade bi excavated at some Longshan culture sites. Compare the jade
discs of similar form discovered in 1978 from burials at Taosi, Xiangfen, Shanxi province, identified as a Longshan culture
site, illustrated in line drawings, Kaogu, 1983, No. 1, p. 38, figs. 10:7 and 10:8.

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