Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600-1050 BCE
label: Period
content: Probably Shang dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Small perforated disk of the type pi [bi] 璧; semitranslucent, mottled greenish and brownish yellow; a beveled area on rim, one long crack.
label: Description
content: (Jenny F. So, Jade Project Database) Evenly round and quite evenly thick. Mottled greenish brownish material; see F1917.81. Conical hole (?), drilled off center, now polished smooth and straight.
label: Provenance
content: To 1912
label: Provenance
content: Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), London, to 1912 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1912 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Abel William Bahr, London, in 1912 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 362, pg. 106, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) was a collector and dealer born in Shanghai, China. After he left Shanghai in 1910, he lived, at various points in time, in London, Montreal, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He established a gallery in New York City in 1920.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: jade
label: Topic
content: nephrite
label: Topic
content: Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: Jades for Life and Death
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1912.44
objectType: label: Type
content: Ceremonial Object
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Jade (nephrite)
label: Dimensions
content: Diam x D: 7.9 x 0.8 cm (3 1/8 x 5/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: Diam (hole): 2.3 cm (7/8 in)