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)
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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
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culture:	East China, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture (3300-2200 BC)
technique:	jade (nephrite)
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Neolithic
type:		Jade
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measurements: Diameter: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.); Overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.); Inner diameter: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions
	opening date:   1994-10-18T04:00:00
	<i>Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).

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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

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PROVENANCE

	Ralph King
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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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wilson, J. Keith. "Lithic Art in the Bronze Age: A Jade Dagger-Axe." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 1 (1990): 2-35.
	page number: 	Reproduced: back cover; Mentioned: p. 3-4, 31
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160102

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