Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 2000-1700 BCE
label: Period
content: Late Neolithic period or Early Bronze Period
notes: label: Description
content: Perforated disk of the type pi [bi] 璧; uneven proportions; mottled reddish-brown and pale to medium green; reddish-orange earth incrustation in granular patches and veins.
label: Description
content: Acquired with an inscribed box, now lost.
label: Provenance
content: Duanfang (1861-1911) [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1919
label: Provenance
content: You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai to 1919 [2]
label: Provenance
content: 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1919 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to Curatorial Remark 6, H.P. Stern, 1956, in the object record: "Box for this piece purports this jade to be from the collection of the Viceroy Tuan Fang." See also, Provenance Note 1 in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1407, pg. 331, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911)
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: 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
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: F1919.28
objectType: label: Type
content: Ceremonial Object
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Jade (nephrite with beige inclusions of diopside)
label: Dimensions
content: Diam x D: 14.7 x 1.2 cm (5 13/16 x 1/2 in)