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- Title
- Bi (Pi; disc)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Large, flat disk made of gray and green jade with touches of black and brown with a hole in the center. Incised circle around outer edge of disk and around edge of interior hole.
- Century
- 8th BCE - 3rd BCE
- Object Creation Date
- 771 BCE - 256 BCE
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.85A&B
- Medium and Support
- cloudy light green nephrite with black and brown mottling
- relevance
- rank 17.98647
- Primary Keywords
- art objects
- disks
- funerary objects
- jades
- rituals (events)
- Title
- Jade cong cylinder with low relief design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- jade cylinder with square shaped exterior and round interior, shallow relief carver on each side, possible representing zoomorphic designs that have been worn off. Dark jade material with many striations and mottles. Come in custom-designed silk box enclosed in a fine hardwood box. The inscription on wooden box indicates that the object was once part of the Duan Fang collection in late 19th century. Duan Fang was a Manchu stateman and reknowned antiquarian. His inscription date the object to the Zhou period. Recent archaeological work suggests that the object was probably made in the late 3rd millennium B.C.E. and remained in circulation by Shang period of the late 2nd millennium B.C.E.
- Century
- 13th-11th century BCE
- Object Creation Date
- 1300 BCE - 1100 BCE
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.102
- Medium and Support
- dark green nephrite with white streaks
- relevance
- rank 15.09840
- Primary Keywords
- jade art objects
- ritual
- Title
- Pig
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Jade carved horizontally in the shape of a pig.
- Object Creation Date
- 206 BCE - 220 CE
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.112
- Medium and Support
- jade
- relevance
- rank 13.30923
- Primary Keywords
- jade art objects
- jade carvings
- jades
- pig
- seal prints
- Title
- Bi Disc with notches
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- This jade disc has a circular hole in the center, and is carved in a way that the jade appears to be turning around this central point, almost in the shape of a hurricane symbol if it were to have three prongs. On each of the three prongs are three evenly spaced raised bumps.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 15th century BCE - 11th century BCE
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.110
- Medium and Support
- jade
- relevance
- rank 13.30923
- Primary Keywords
- circle (plane figure)
- jade art objects
- jade carvings
- jades