J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
Menu20.
A JADE BI DISC WITH COLLARED CENTRAL APERTURE
Shang Dynasty, 13th – 12th Century B.C.
of wide flat form, finely incised on both sides with evenly spaced concentric circles in a repeating pattern of three sets of three narrow lines separated by very shallow grooves, and with incised double-lines on the innermost section of the disc encircling the narrow vertical collars on either side of the central aperture, the rims of the collars with roughly squared edges and the outer edge of the disc with rounded lip, the polished surface altered in burial to opaque cloudy tan color, with some widely scattered pitting, the original pale olive green color of the stone showing through on one side.
Diameter 6 7⁄8 inches (17.5 cm)
Provenance
From the Mariotti Collection, sold by Ader at Hotel Drouot, Paris,
4 December 1952
A jade collared disc of very similar form excavated from the tomb of Fu Hao (d. circa 1200 B.C.) is illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. 87, no. 1, with description on p. 119; and a Shang jade disc of similar form and design, unearthed from tomb no. 54 at Huayuanzhuang, Anyang, Henan province, is illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 5, Henan, Beijing, 2005, p. 79.
Another similar jade collared disc unearthed in 1989 from the Shang cemetery at Dayangzhou, Xin’gan, Jiangxi province, illustrated in Shang dai Jiangnan: Jiangxi Xin’gan Dayangzhou chutu wenwu jicui (Shang Dynasty in the South of Yangtze River: Selected Relics Unearthed from Dayangzhou, Xin’gan, Jiangxi Province), Beijing, 2006, pp. 214-216.
Compare also the jade collared disc of very similar form excavated at Sanxingdui, Guanghan county, Sichuan province, exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2002 and illustrated by Bagley (ed.) in the catalogue of the travelling exhibition entitled Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization, Seattle, 2001, p. 172, no. 61, together with line drawings of other similar jade discs ranging in size from 8 to 18 cm which were discovered at the same site.
Other jade collared discs with very similar concentric lines and grooves are illustrated by Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 99, no. 102; illustrated by Mino and Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1983, pp. 66-67; and illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 166, fig. 1, preceded by a discussion of collared discs as a category of jade carvings found in burials dating from the late Neolithic period to the early Western Zhou, circa 2000-1000 B.C., op. cit., pp. 164-165.
商 有領玉璧 徑 17.5 厘米
出處 Mariotti 舊藏，巴黎Ader拍賣會 Hotel Drouot 於 1952年 12月 4日賣出
