Disk (bi 璧)
Object Details
- Description
- Large perforated disk of the type pi [bi] 璧; bored from both sides, leaving heavy median ridge; mottled olive greens with traces of red and golden brown, profuse greenish-white clouding of incipient disintegration; both surfaces are satin smooth, one has a large and two small saw marks. (Rim rough and broken in three areas.)
- Acquired with a box, now lost.
- Provenance
- To 1917
- You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1917 [1]
- From 1917 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1917 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1285, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
- Ancient Chinese Jades and Bronzes (November 20, 2010 to January 3, 2016)
- Previous custodian or owner
- You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Culture
- Liangzhu culture, ca. 3300-ca. 2250 BCE
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 3300-2250 BCE
- Period
- Late Neolithic period
- Accession Number
- F1917.345
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Ceremonial Object
- Medium
- Jade (nephrite)
- Dimensions
- Diam x D: 24.7 x 1.4 cm (9 3/4 x 9/16 in)
- Diam (hole): 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in)
- Origin
- Lake Tai region, China
- On View
- Freer Gallery 19: Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Jades for Life and Death
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- jade
- nephrite
- Late Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)
- China
- Chinese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1917.345
