A SMALL CHINESE ARCHAIC MOTTLED JADE DISC, BI

Neolithic Period, Qijia Culture (Circa 2300-1500 B.C.E.)

新石器時代 齊家文化 玉璧

Carved out from mottled white jade with dark brown inclusions showing various tones in colour, the body surface generally polished with both sides smooth and showing inner drill marks from one side

12cm diameter

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PROVENANCE:

Galerie Zacke;

Property of the Essex Collection of Early Chinese Art, British Private Collection, where some of the collection is now housed in the National Museum of Wales.

來源：

扎克藝廊（Galerie Zacke）；

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REFERENCE:

This jade is illustrated in Salviati, Filippo. 4000 years of Chinese Archaic Jades, p. 99, fig. 116.

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