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AN OLIVE-GREEN NEPHRITE JADE DISC, YUAN For a smaller jade ring, yuan, dated to the slightly earlier Warring
Western Han dynasty States period, see J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, Ancient China, Jades,
Carved with a large central aperture and incised on both sides with a Bronzes and Ceramics, March-April 1999, New York, 1994, no. 20,
continuous band of comma-spirals enclosed in a single cut line near where a comparison is drawn with another ring, yuan, illustrated by
the well-polished edges of the inner and outer rim, the stone a pale A. Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades from the Collection of Edward
olive-green color with inclusions and alterations. and Louise B. Sonnenscein, Art Institute of Chicago, 1952, p. 202, pl.
9in (22.8cm) diameter LXXIV, no. 2.
$7,000 - 10,000 For further discussion on discs of the Eastern Zhou and Han periods,
see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing,
西漢 青玉渦紋瑗 British Museum, London, 1995, pp. 246-256, no’s. 15:1, 15:2 and
17.2 where various yuan and bi discs are illustrated .
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