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Ceremonial Disk with Grain Pattern (Bi)

Ceremonial Disk with Grain Pattern (Bi)

475–221 BCE
Diameter: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)

Did You Know?

The disk's outer rim is incised with a 47-character poem written in seal script, dated to the gengyin year of the Qianlong emperor's reign [1770].

Description

Jade disks of later centuries developed from the Neolithic period’s plain design to incorporate dense surface decoration. This example bears raised dots with finely incised spirals--so-called grain patterns--arranged in diagonal rows.
  • ?–1952
    Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art by exchange
    1952–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Carved Jades.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 4 (April 1954): 67–68, 71. www.jstor.org
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.567