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This remarkable type of bi disc, decorated with a border of grain- 黃玉質，皮蛋沁呈褐色，熟坑。 扁平圓形，器型規整，雙面雕工。外
pattern surrounded by a band of animal masks, started to appear 廓一周飾饕餮紋，身體互相交纏，內廓為細密榖紋，內外區之間以絞
in the middle to late Warring States period. A large number of such 索紋間隔，兩面紋飾相同。
bi were excavated from the old capital of the State of Lu in Qufu,
Shandong Province. Bi discs of similar type were also found in the Han 這種裝飾題材的玉璧在戰國中晚期已經出現，曲阜魯國故城出土數量
dynasty tombs of the King of Nanyue and other nobles, demonstrating 較多。漢代時，此類玉璧亦在南越王墓以及其他諸侯王大墓中均有出
the high status and rank associated with bi such as the present lot. 土，可推斷出這類玉璧屬於最高等級貴族的喪葬玉器。有考古資料記
It has also been suggested that this type of bi disc may have served 載，雕此類紋飾的玉璧可作為皇帝祭日的禮器，有關論述可參考鄧淑
as ceremonial objects for Imperial sacrifice to the sun; for fuller 蘋，《藍田山房藏玉百選》，台北，1995年，頁22-23。
discussion, see Teng Shu P’ing, One Hundred Jades from the Lantien
Shanfang Collection, Taipei, 1995, pp.49-50. 1983年在廣東省廣州市象崗山出土了一件南越王墓的隨葬品中的玉
璧，其造型和紋飾與本器相似，尺寸稍大，見James C.S. Lin編，
Compare an excavated jade bi disc of larger size but similar form 《The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China》，劍
and pattern, from the tomb of the King of Nanyue, excavated at 橋，2012年，頁280，圖156A。另見一件西漢玉璧，紋飾類似，尺寸
Xianggangshan in Guangzhou, Western Han dynasty, illustrated by 稍大，出土於江蘇省徐州獅子山楚王陵，現藏於南京博物院，見《中
J.C.Lin, The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, 國出土玉器全集：7》，北京，2005年，頁109。北京故宮博物院亦
Cambridge, 2012, p.280, pl.156A. Another slightly larger disc, 藏一例可資參考，見《故宮博物院藏品大系：玉器編4：漢魏晉南北
Western Han dynasty, of similar pattern was excavated from the tomb 朝》，北京，2011年，頁33，圖版8。
of the Prince of Chu at Shizisan in Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province, now
in the collection of the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Jades Unearthed in China: 7, Beijing, 2005, p.109. See
also a green jade bi disc of similar design illustrated in Compendium of
Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 4 Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and
Northern Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.33, pl.8.

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