Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 3300-ca. 2350 BCE
label: Period
content: Late Neolithic period
notes: label: Description
content: Perforated disk; some translucent spots, obverse: mottled fawn and dull olive green with whitish areas of incipient disintegration; reverse: fawn colored with traces only of olive green; surface contour uneven; some roughened areas. (Rim chipped.)
label: Description
content: Acquired with a box, now lost.
label: Provenance
content: Reportedly excavated in An-hsi, Chekiang [1]
label: Provenance
content: Wu Dacheng (1835-1902) [2]
label: Provenance
content: To 1919
label: Provenance
content: You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1919 [3]
label: Provenance
content: 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York, in 1919 [4]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [5]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record states: "Formerly in the collection of Wu Ta-ch'eng, of Kiangsu, and said to have been excavated at An-hsi, Chekiang."
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1413, pg. 333, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [4] See note 3.
label: Provenance
content: [5] 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: Wu Dacheng 吳大澂 (1835-1902)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: (purportedly found at) Anxi, Zhejiang province, Lake Tai region, China
topic: label: Topic
content: jade
label: Topic
content: nephrite
label: Topic
content: Late Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
culture: label: Culture
content: Liangzhu culture, ca. 3300-ca. 2250 BCE
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: F1919.34
objectType: label: Type
content: Ceremonial Object
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Jade (nephrite)
label: Dimensions
content: Diam x D: 11.6 × 0.7 cm (4 9/16 × 1/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: Diam (hole): 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in)