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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Ceremonial Disk with Grain Pattern (Bi)
475–221 BCE
Location: 241A Arts of Ancient China
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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.- ?–1952Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art by exchange1952–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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