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.
Condition Report:
A chip to the bottom left corner edge and a smoothed out chip to the lower left side edge. Small loss to one of the mythical beasts.
General nibbling to edges. Large chip to reverse edge of the bi. General inclusions and fissures to stone.
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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.
Condition Report:
A chip to the bottom left corner edge and a smoothed out chip to the lower left side edge. Small loss to one of the mythical beasts.
General nibbling to edges. Large chip to reverse edge of the bi. General inclusions and fissures to stone.
