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DOUBLE BI-SHAPED PENDANT DISC
DOUBLE BI-SHAPED PENDANT DISC
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DOUBLE BI-SHAPED PENDANT
Jade, China, Late Neolithic period, Dawenkou culture, c.3000-2500 BC
玉雙è¯ç’§ - 大汶å£æ–‡åŒ–, 公元å‰30世紀-å‰25世紀
長 7.2 厘米
This pendant is fashioned in the shape of two discs joined together,
separated only by two small indentations carved on the sides. Actually, the top section has a
pronounced elliptical profile, while the bottom part is more disc-shaped. The pendant is quite
thick, though it slopes down towards the rounded border. The finely polished jade is slightly
mottled and has a predominant yellowish colour with darkened patches of crystals scattered
in the stone. One side of the pendant is crossed by small reddish veins, likely generated by the
oxidation of the iron contained in the jade.
A similarly shaped pendant was discovered in 1981 in a Hongshan culture tomb at the
Niuheliang site, Jianping, Liaoning Province (reproduced in Yang Xiaoneng, The Golden Age
of Chinese Archaeology. Celebrated Discoveries from The People’s Republic of China, New
Haven and London, 1999, no.20). However, jade ornaments shaped as two or three rings
joined together have also been found in graves of the late phase of the Dawenkou culture
(c.4500-2500 BC) and are often associated with small rings of the type described above.
LENGTH PENDANT 7.2 CM
DISC
Jade, late Neolithic period, Dawenkou culture, c.2500 BC
玉璧 - 大汶å£æ–‡åŒ–, 公元å‰30世紀-å‰25世紀
直徑 7.8 厘米
This ornament is shaped as a miniature bi disc: the jade, which has a lens-shaped
cross-section, slopes down towards the centre and thins near the inner edge which has been
softened and rounded. The border is not perfectly circular and has a few tiny chips as signs
of wear. Both sides of the disc show extensive traces left by the abrasives used to polish the
jade: the marks are in the form of minute parallel striations and are particularly visible in the
area around the central hole. The jade is of a pale green, yellowish colour, visible in the only
portion of the disc that is relatively free from the strong iron inclusions which affect the jade
and which have turned it dark brown.
Small discs of this kind have been mostly found in Dawenkou culture sites, often as part of
ornaments composed by various elements in jade, such as the one discovered in 1971 at
Yedian, Zoucheng City , Shandong Province, which also included jades shaped as the double
disc pendant described below. For a colour plate of the ornament from Yedian, see Mou
Yongkang, Zhongguo yuqi quanji - 1 Yuanshi shehui (Chinese Jades: Vol.1, Early Societies),
Shijiazhuang 1993, no.34.
DIAMETER DISC 7.8 CM
From an Italian private collection
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DOUBLE BI-SHAPED PENDANT DISC

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