J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

A jade collared disc of very similar form excavated from the tomb of Fu Hao (d. circa 1200 B.C.) is illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. 87, no. 1, with description on p. 119; and a Shang jade disc of similar form and design, unearthed from tomb no. 54 at Huayuanzhuang, Anyang, Henan province, is illustrated by Gu (ed.), Zhongguo chutu yuqi quanji (Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China), Vol. 5, Henan, Beijing, 2005, p. 79.

Another similar jade collared disc unearthed in 1989 from the Shang cemetery at Dayangzhou, Xin’gan, Jiangxi province, illustrated in Shang dai Jiangnan: Jiangxi Xin’gan Dayangzhou chutu wenwu jicui (Shang Dynasty in the South of Yangtze River: Selected Relics Unearthed from Dayangzhou, Xin’gan, Jiangxi Province), Beijing, 2006, pp. 214-216.

Compare also the jade collared disc of very similar form excavated at Sanxingdui, Guanghan county, Sichuan province, exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2002 and illustrated by Bagley (ed.) in the catalogue of the travelling exhibition entitled Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization, Seattle, 2001, p. 172, no. 61, together with line drawings of other similar jade discs ranging in size from 8 to 18 cm which were discovered at the same site.

Other jade collared discs with very similar concentric lines and grooves are illustrated by Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 99, no. 102; illustrated by Mino and Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1983, pp. 66-67;  and illustrated by Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 166, fig. 1, preceded by a discussion of collared discs as a category of jade carvings found in burials dating from the late Neolithic period to the early Western Zhou, circa 2000-1000 B.C., op. cit., pp. 164-165.