Jades for Life and Death

: 璧
新石器時代晚期良渚文化（公元前3300--2250年）
中國太湖地區
軟玉
直徑16、厚1.1釐米
查爾斯·蘭·佛利爾贈送
器物編號：F1919.23

Provenance: Duanfang (1861-1911) [1]

To 1919
You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai to 1919 [2]

1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1919 [3]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

Notes:

[1] According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record: "Formerly in the collection of the Viceroy Tuan Fang"

[2] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1402, pg. 328, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[3] See note 2.

[4] 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): Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911)
You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (C.L. Freer source) (late 19th-early 20th century)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Description: Perforated disk of the type pi [bi] 璧; bored from both sides, leaving median ridge; mottled olive greens, reddish and golden browns, much obscured by profuse grayish-white areas of incipient disintegration; surface contours uneven and rim irregular. (Rim badly broken and worn away in two areas.)

Acquired with a box, now lost.

Curatorial Remarks

Published References

J. Keith Wilson, Jingmin Zhang. Jades for Life and Death. .
You Xiaoxi. Description of antique Chinese paintings and brass wares as well as of porcelains of different ages, The Charles Lang Freer papers., 1919. No. 70, p. 53, 65.

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Disk (bi 璧)