A JADE ‘THREE-TIERED’ DISC, BI

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Lot 2710 | A JADE ‘THREE-TIERED’ DISC, BI
A JADE ‘THREE-TIERED’ DISC, BI

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

The disc is carved on both sides with three concentric registers, the middle row with detached comma-spirals, the first and third rows with linked C-scroll motifs.



A jade disc similarly carved with comma-spirals and linked C-scroll motifs but in two registers only was unearthed from the Nanyue King tomb in Guangzhou, illustrated in Jades from the Tomb of the King of Nanyue, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 95 (fig. 1).

5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) diam., box





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Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1993

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