id: 98298 accession number: 1917.974 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.974 updated: 2023-01-10 17:22:08.175000 Ceremonial Disk (Bi), 3300–2200 BC. East China, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture (3300-2200 BC). Jade (nephrite); diameter: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.); overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.); inner diameter: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection 1917.974 title: Ceremonial Disk (Bi) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 3300–2200 BC creation date earliest: -3300 creation date latest: -2200 current location: 241A Arts of Ancient China creditline: Worcester R. Warner Collection copyright: --- culture: East China, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture (3300-2200 BC) technique: jade (nephrite) department: Chinese Art collection: China - Neolithic type: Jade find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.); Overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.); Inner diameter: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1994: "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions," cat., Bull., vol. 81, no. 8 (Oct. 1994) cat. no. 3, p. 346 --- PROVENANCE Ralph King date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Archaeological discoveries have provided evidence for ancient ritual practices and cultural variations in jade carvings used as ceremonial implements. Large perforated disks such as this piece have been found at the Liangzhu cultural sites around the Yangzi River valley in present-day Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The jade disks tend to be buried in graves and placed in prominent positions with the bodies of the deceased. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wilson, J. Keith. "Lithic Art in the Bronze Age: A Jade Dagger-Axe." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 1 (1990): 2-35. page number: Reproduced: back cover; Mentioned: p. 3-4, 31 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160102 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.974/1917.974_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.974/1917.974_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.974/1917.974_full.tif