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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND LARGE DARK GREEN JADE 'CHILONG' DISK, ROYAL BI, HAN DYNASTY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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Expert authentication: Dr. Gu Fang has examined the present lot and confirms its authenticity and the dating above, noting the style of cutting, workmanship, thickness and quality of stone with decomposed areas indicating burial all suggest a dating to 206 BC-220 CE. He assessed it as a piece of notably good quality. A signed copy of Dr. Gu's expertise, dated 16 September 2024, accompanies this lot. Dr. Gu Fang (born 1962) is an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese art and a leading authority on jades. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the prestigious Beijing University in 1986 and later studied at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he now serves as a Senior Fellow specializing in archaeological excavations and Chinese jade research. A former visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he has authored several books on Chinese jades, including the 15-volume The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China (2007), one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, as well as Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China (2012).China, 206 BC-220 CE. The circular disc is carved on both sides around the central aperture with a field of raised nodes within a hexagonal grid pattern, enclosed by inner and outer raised borders, and is surmounted by a pair of confronted dragons carved in openwork and shown in profile, their sinuous bodies richly incised to denote whiskers and fur, the heads and furcated tails similarly detailed, the semi-translucent stone of deep green celadon hue with paler shadings, dark-brown patches, and cloudy as well as russet inclusions.Provenance: From a private collection in New York, United States.Condition: Very good condition with expected wear, signs of prolonged burial and traces of weathering, encrustations, minor nibbling to the outer edges, the stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into minor hairline cracks.Weight: 345 gDimensions: Height 25.8 cmLiterature comparison:Compare a closely related green jade bi, dated to the Han dynasty, in the collection of the Hebei Museum, and exhibited by the Qingdao Museum, Ji Di Han Feng: Exhibition of Han Dynasty Cultural Relics from the Hebei Museum Collection, 27 July-20 October 2019. Compare a related jade bi with similar nodes within a grid pattern and surmounted by mythical beasts, dated to the Eastern Han dynasty, ca. 22 cm wide, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number F1916.155. Compare a related earlier jade bi with dragon motif dated to the Eastern Zhou dynasty, 16.5 cm high, in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, object number 33-81. Compare related white jade bi disk dated to the Western Han dynasty, excavated at Han Tomb No. 1 at Lingshan, Mancheng, Hebei, 25.9 cm high, in the Hebei Museum.Auction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26 November 2024, lot 3809Price: HKD 2,640,000 or approx. EUR 294,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: An exceptionally rare and large white jade 'chilong' disc, bi, Eastern Han dynastyExpert remark: Compare the closely related form and manner of carving with similar nodes within a grid pattern and mythical beasts carved in openwork. Note the closely related size (25.4 cm). Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2024, lot 1071Price: HKD 25,180,000 or approx. EUR 2,806,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A jade openwork 'longevity' bi, mid-Eastern Han dynasty, circa 89-144 ADExpert remark: Compare the closely related form and manner of carving with similar nodes enclosed by raised bands below dragons carved in openwork. Note the size (17.3 cm).13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.

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