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AN UNUSUAL BLACK AND WHITE ‘STRIPED’ MARBLE DISK, BI, LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD-EARLY BRONZE AGE
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AN UNUSUAL BLACK AND WHITE ‘STRIPED’ MARBLE DISK, BI, LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD-EARLY BRONZE AGE
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published: Jean-Paul Desroches (ed.), Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art, Paris, 2016, p. 44, no. 50.

Exhibited:
1. Pointe-à-Callière Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Montréal, 17th November 2016-19th March 2017.
2. Kimbell Art Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Fort Worth, Texas, 4th March-19th August 2018.

China, c. 2200-1900 BC. Of circular form with a central aperture drilled from one side. The opaque stone presenting a unique and beautiful arrangement of white stripes against a dark brownish-black ground with deep russet veins.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Good condition with wear, signs of prolonged burial, traces of weathering, old smoothened losses, the stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into small hairline cracks.

Weight: 615 g
Dimensions: Diameter 18.5 cm

Bi disks such as the current example have been thought to symbolize a connection between heaven and earth. This hypothesis has been solidified by the large number of examples found in ancient tombs of Chinese elite dating from the Neolithic to the Han Dynasty, also underscoring their significance as objects deemed important enough to accompany one to the afterlife. The Chinese character for jade, 玉 (yù), is a pictorial representation of three such disks suspended on a cord, an image that is also found in the Chinese character for king, 王 (wáng), which further emphasizes the precious nature and cultural significance of such disks.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related marble tiger with a similar natural pattern of black and white veining, dated to the Western Zhou dynasty, 11th-9th century BC, 14.6 cm long, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1985.214.93.

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