AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED ZITAN-MOUNTED JADE BI DISC BI: WARRING STATES PERIOD STAND: MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the jade of circular form pierced with a central aperture, crisply worked to each side with the 'whirlpool' pattern amongst C-scrolls, the stone of a variegated celadon-green tone with calcified milky-brown patches, mounted within a circular zitan stand carved and gilt with an imperial poem dated to Qianlong jichou year (in accordance with 1769), the front fitted with a zitan boss to the centre to secure the jade, decorated with a trigram qian filled in with gilt and flanked by a pair of stylised kui dragons, all enclosed within key-fret borders, the underside of the stand and the boss inscribed with a yi character in gilt bi: 12.6 cm, 5 in., stand: 14.1 cm, 5 1/2 in.
AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED ZITAN-MOUNTED JADE BI DISC BI: WARRING STATES PERIOD STAND: MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the jade of circular form pierced with a central aperture, crisply worked to each side with the 'whirlpool' pattern amongst C-scrolls, the stone of a variegated celadon-green tone with calcified milky-brown patches, mounted within a circular zitan stand carved and gilt with an imperial poem dated to Qianlong jichou year (in accordance with 1769), the front fitted with a zitan boss to the centre to secure the jade, decorated with a trigram qian filled in with gilt and flanked by a pair of stylised kui dragons, all enclosed within key-fret borders, the underside of the stand and the boss inscribed with a yi character in gilt bi: 12.6 cm, 5 in., stand: 14.1 cm, 5 1/2 in.
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