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Similar jade discs were made in the Warring States and Western
Han periods. Compare a jade bi made for the King of Nanyue,
with a proportionally larger aperture and dragon in the centre,
illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji 4 – Qin, Han, Nanbeichao,
Hebei, 1993, p. 23 no. 30 (fig. 1).
青白玉,局部有褐色沁斑,體片狀,圓形,兩面紋飾相同,中鏤空
透雕一隻龍,昂首挺胸,口張尾捲,遒勁矯健,有奔騰之勢。璧體
滿飾旋形榖紋,拋光細膩潤澤。
此類玉璧於戰國至西漢期間均有製作。可比較南越王墓出土的一件
玉璧,其開孔及龍紋比例較大,著錄於《中國玉器全集 4 – 秦、
漢》,河北,1993 年,頁 23,圖版 30 號(圖一)。
fig. 1 The Museum of the Western Han Dynasty
Mausoleum of the Nanyue King Collection
圖一 西漢南越王墓博物館藏品
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