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A small archaic jade disc, bi, Western Han dynasty 西漢 蒲紋玉璧

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A small archaic jade disc, bi,

Western Han dynasty

西漢 蒲紋玉璧


5.2 cm

Sotheby’s London, 19th June 1984, lot 93. 

Collection of Mr and Mrs Herbert Lobl.


倫敦蘇富比1984年6月19日,編號93

Herbert Lobl 伉儷收藏

95th Anniversary Exhibition – The Lobl Collection of Chinese Jades, Marchant, London, 2020, cat. no. 1.


《95th Anniversary Exhibition – The Lobl Collection of Chinese Jades》,馬錢特,倫敦,2020年,編號1

A bi with similar carving found in an early Western Han tomb is illustrated in Excavations of the Han Tombs at Guangzhou, vol. II, pl. XLII, fig. 1, and another of larger size in the Art Institute of Chicago is illustrated by Alfred Salmony, Archaic Chinese Jades from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, pl. CII, no. 1.