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Property from the Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers Property from a Distinguished Private Belgian Collection 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏
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A PALE GREYISH-BEIGE AND BROWN JADE A RARE PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND BROWN This piece is half of what would have been a complete bi, such as the openwork carving of a striding feline dragon projecting from the outer
PENDANT JADE SECTION OF A BI example of similar size (15.8 cm. diam.) and color, with small central edge. Another example carved with an openwork projection of two
MID TO LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 9TH-8TH CENTURY BC WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8) aperture, and fine, glossy polish, carved with small plain bumps rather confronted dragons, in the collection of Ernest Erickson, is illustrated
than comma spirals, from the collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, by A. Salmony in Chinese Jade Through the Wei Dynasty, New York,
3æ in. (9.5 cm.) long 6º in. (15.8 cm.) long, cloth box
sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2015, lot 592. Another complete 1963, pl. XXVII, where it is dated Han. See, also, the bi of this type
$7,000-10,000 $30,000-50,000 bi of this type (16 cm. diam.) in the British Museum is illustrated by carved in openwork on the outer edge with two phoenixes in the Qing
J. Rawson in Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Court Collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
PROVENANCE: PROVENANCE: Museum, 1995, p. 254, no. 15:3. The author compares this bi to one Treasures in the Palace Museum - 40 - Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1995,
Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, acquired in Paris, 15 July 1995. Galaxie Art (B.K. Wong), Hong Kong, 20 November 1989.
carved on the outer edge in openwork with a large projection of p. 154, pl. 127. In Chinese Jade throughout the ages, Oriental Ceramic
EXHIBITED: dragons and clouds, from the tomb of Prince Liu Sheng at Hebei Society, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975, J. Rawson and J. Ayers
Sam 及 Myrna Myers 伉儷珍藏 Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Kredietbank
西周中期至晚期 西元ע̏至Ջˠ紀 褐玉龍珮 Mancheng, late 2nd century BC, which is illustrated in a rubbing, p. illustrate a complete white jade bi disc in the British Museum, no. 97,
Gallery, Brussels, 25 October-17 December 1995; Kredietbank Luxembourg, 1 250, fig. 6. The author notes, p. 250, that the functions of the discs of similar size (14.2 cm. wide), and type, which is carved in a manner
Ϝ源 February-13 April 1996.
Sam 及 Myrna Myers伉儷珍藏，Ն藏於巴黎，1995年7月15日 with openwork decoration projecting from the outer edge were similar to that of the present piece with openwork decoration around
different from the more usual bi discs, and goes on to say that each the outer edges of the Animals of the Four Quarters: the Tiger of the
LITERATURE:
Nicole De Bisscop, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi one was different, and presumably made for an "individual owner on West, the Dragon of the East, and the Bird of the South, but the Black
Collection, Brussels, 1995, p. 78, no. 40. a particular occasion." Rawson also illustrates, p. 310, a Han dynasty Warrior of the North is missing.
bi of this elaborate type in the Freer Gallery of Art, which has a large
東西軒：比利時顯㈥私́珍藏
西漢 玉ڑ璧
Ϝ源
Galaxie Art 王炳權
，香港，1989年11月20日
展覽
ǙChinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collectionǚ，Kredietbank
藝廊，布魯ਫ਼ḓ，1995年10月25日 12月17日 盧森ਫ, Kredietbank 藝廊,，1996年
2月1日 4月13日
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Nicole De Bisscop，ǗChinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi
Collectionǘ，布魯ਫ਼ḓ，1995年，頁78，編號40

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