Jade 'Bi' Disk | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.519
Title: Jade 'Bi' Disk
Other Titles: Alternate Title: pi
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
Date: 770 BCE - 221 BCE (?)
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Zhou dynasty, Eastern Zhou period, 770-256 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204846

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Partly translucent, yellowish brown stone
Dimensions: 0.5 x 14.1 cm (3/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
unspecified: 142 g

Published Text

Catalogue: Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Authors: Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber
Publisher: Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975)

Catalogue entry no. 348 by Max Loehr:

348 Pi Disk
Thin, flat disk of a partly translucent, yellowish brown stone. The surface was polished, and in places still retains a high gloss. The perforation is cylindrical and sharp-edged; the edge of the circumference is comparatively soft. Easter Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.519

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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Publication History

Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 348, p. 234

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