A Chinese pale green jade ritual disc, bi, with ceremonial sceptre, gui...
A Chinese pale green jade ritual disc, bi, with ceremonial sceptre, gui
Late Qing dynasty
The hollow disc carved in shallow relief with the Eight Trigrams and speared by a ceremonial gui sceptre, with four mythical beast at the corners and breaking waves at the base of the sceptre, the stone of a pale green stone with darker green inclusions and calcification to surface, 24.7cm long.
清晚期 青玉壁
Cf. a jade carving of the same design in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C, accession no. F1916.378.
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A Chinese pale green jade ritual disc, bi, with ceremonial sceptre, gui
Late Qing dynasty
The hollow disc carved in shallow relief with the Eight Trigrams and speared by a ceremonial gui sceptre, with four mythical beast at the corners and breaking waves at the base of the sceptre, the stone of a pale green stone with darker green inclusions and calcification to surface, 24.7cm long.
清晚期 青玉壁
Cf. a jade carving of the same design in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C, accession no. F1916.378.
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