A CHINESE ARCHAIC JADE DISC, BI

Neolithic Period, Liangzhu Culture (Circa 3300 - 2250 B.C.E.)

新石器時代 良渚文化或後期 玉璧

Carved from a mottled jade, displaying a range of colours and showing signs of calcification, the surface is generally flat and smooth with imperfection throughout the body and outer edges and the central aperture showing signs of drilling and corrosion

14.8cm diameter

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PROVENANCE:

Australian Private Collection, formed during the 1960's;

Galerie Zacke, 2017;

奧地利私人收藏，1960年代組成；

扎克藝廊（Galerie Zacke），2017年；

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REFERENCE:

Watson, W. The Arts of China to AD 900, Yale University Press, 1995, p. 52;

Jades of the Liangzhu Culture- The Dawn of Chinese Civilization, Liangzhu Culture Museum and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 17, pp. 37, 85;

A Catalogue of the National Palace Museum’s Special Exhibition of Circular Jade, Taipei, 1995, no. 48, pp. 88-9.