Detail View: National Palace English: Jade inscribed disc with grain patterns
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Work ID:
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M01C00108
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Title:
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Jade inscribed disc with grain patterns
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Creation Date:
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Warring States Period to Early Western Han Dynasty
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Start Year Date:
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B.C.481
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End Year Date:
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B.C.141
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Dynasty:
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10 Warring States Period (481~221 B.C)
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Dynasty:
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11 Qin Dynasty (221~206 B.C.)
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Dynasty:
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13 Western Han (206 B.C.~A.D.9)
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Creation Place:
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China
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Measurements:
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Diameter: 10.96 cm; Diameter (hole): 4.5 cm; Thickness: 0.48 cm
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Material:
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Jade
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Form:
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Bi (jade disc)
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Type:
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Jades and Other Precious Stones
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Repository:
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The National Palace Museum, Taipei
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Description:
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The semi-translucent disc has a large, tonal, brown speck near the outer edge. The disc has a refined shape, and it contains an interior and exterior ridge, which is a narrow and protruding edge in the Warring States period. The surface is filled with tiny and round grain patterns. In regards to the material, dexterity, and polishing, this jade is of the best quality among extant examples. Another unique feature of this jade is five abstruse, inscribed characters on the outer edge.Quite a few jade discs with inscribed characters on the outer edge are excavated, and most of them are for recording numbers in nature. A disc with grain patterns excavated from Zuojiatang of Changsha, Hunan province, is inscribed with four characters that read, "four hundred eleven," on the outer edge. The National Palace Museum jade contains five characters, in which the last three characters read thirty-nine, but the first two characters cannot be deciphered yet. Perhaps they indicate position.
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ImageV ID:
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M01C00108AS001
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Rights:
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Lee & Lee Communications
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