Object: Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and birds, reworked F1916.154

Classification: Ceremonial Object

Historical period(s): Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE

Object Date: 206 BCE-220 CE

Medium: Jade (nephrite)

Dimension(s): Diam x D: 18.5 × 0.5 cm (7 5/16 × 3/16 in)

Origin: China

Credit Line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Collection: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Accession Number: F1916.154

: 凸面網格穀紋和鳥紋璧（重加工）
漢代（公元前206--公元220年）
中國
軟玉
高18.8、寬17、厚0.5釐米；孔徑4.4釐米
查爾斯·蘭·佛利爾贈送
器物編號：F1916.154

Provenance: To 1916
Lai Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

From 1916 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), purchased from Lai Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]

From 1920
The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 891, p. 196, 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.

Previous owner(s): Lai-Yuan & Company (C.L. Freer source) (ca. 1915-April 1921)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Curatorial Remarks

1. Bought from Lai Yuan and Company, New York. For price, see Original Miscellaneous List, p. 196.
2. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Original attribution: Han 漢. See further, S.I. 891, Appendix VII.
3. (Archibald Gibson Wenley, 1945) Late Chou [Zhou] 周 dynasty. A superb and delicate piece of tomb jade typifying the finest type of Late Chou [Zhou] 周 workmanship in material, proportion and artistic skill. For discussion of type, see Folder Sheet F1939.14, note 3.
4. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Sp. G. is 2.954.
5. (George Perkins Merrill, 1922) Jadeite.
6. (Thomas Lawton, 1978) Attribution changed from "Late Chou [Zhou] 周" to "Western Han 漢." This disk has been sliced from a thicker disk.
7. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 8, 2008) "Ceremonial Object" added as secondary classification.
8. (Jeffrey Smith per Matthew Clarke, July 7, 2022) Medium changed from Jade (?) to Jade (nephrite).
9. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, June 8, 2023) Title changed from "Ritual disk (bi)" to "Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and birds, reworked"; Period One changed from "Western Han dynasty" to "Han dynasty"; Date changed from "206 BCE-9 CE" to "206 BCE-220 CE"; added Chinese Translation by Jingmin Zhang.

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