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A carved jade bi disk
Mid-Qing dynasty or later

Chinese, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art and Paintings
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A carved jade bi disk

Mid-Qing dynasty or later
The thin sectioned disc carved to one side in a dense ground of interlocking scroll patterns and reversed by intertwined archaistic dragons, the stone of celadon hue marked by large areas of intense russet.
5 7/8in (15cm) diameter

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清中期或更晚 青白玉雕龍紋褐斑璧

Provenance
Spink & Son, Ltd. London, 11 August 1969, as 17th century

Alhough the craftsmanship of the tightly composed scroll motifs and archaistic kaozheng movement subject matter strongly point to a high-Qing date of manufacture, a nearly identical bi disk in size, color and subject matter in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is dated as 1900-1949: collection number B60J406. For a fascinating discussion of the rigorous re-dating of the jades in the Avery Brundage collection by Yang Boda in the 1990s, see Knight, Li, and Bartholomew, Later Chinese Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco), pp. 95-140 and passim.

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