Object: Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid F1919.38

Classification: Ceremonial Object

Historical period(s): Qing dynasty, 1736-1795

Object Date: 1736-1795

Medium: Jade (nephrite)

Dimension(s): Diam x D: 10.9 × 0.6 cm (4 5/16 × 1/4 in) Diam (Hole): 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in)

Origin: China, purportedly found at Shaanxi province

Credit Line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Collection: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Accession Number: F1919.38

: 凸面規則網格谷紋璧
清代（1736--1795年）
中國，傳陝西出土
軟玉
直徑18.6、厚0.5釐米；孔徑4.4釐米
查爾斯·蘭·佛利爾贈送
器物編號：F1919.38

Provenance: To 1919
You Xiaoxi (late 19th–early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1919 [1]

1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1919 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1417, 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): You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (C.L. Freer source) (late 19th-early 20th century)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Curatorial Remarks

1. Bought from Seaouke Yue [You Xiaoxi] 游筱溪, of Shanghai 上海, in New York, NY. For price, see Original Miscellaneous List, p. 335.
2. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Original attribution: Chou [Zhou] 周. See further, S.I. 1417, Appendix IX.
3. (Archibald Gibson Wenley, 1945) Ch'ing [Qing] 清 dynasty, may well be of Ch'ien Lung [Qianlong] 乾隆 period. Mechanically accurate work.
For discussion of type see Folder Sheet F1939.14, note 3.
4. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Sp. G. is 2.922.
5. (H. Elise Buckman, 1964) The Envelope File, which has now been destroyed, contained the following: "Excavated at Shensi [Shaanxi] 陝西; procured by the late Viceroy Tuan Fang [Duanfang] 端方."
6. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 8, 2008) "Ceremonial Object" added as secondary classification.
7. (Jeffrey Smith per Janet Douglas, June 17, 2010) "Nephrite" added as modifier to existing medium of "Jade" based on conservation analysis.
8. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, June 6, 2023) Title changed from "Disk (bi)" to "Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid"; added Geography changed from "China" to "China, purportedly found at Shaanxi province"; and added Chinese Translation by Jingmin Zhang.

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