Lot 123. A jade ritual notched disc (xuanji), Neolithic Period; Diameter 7 1/4 in., 18.5 cm. Estimate 80,000 — 100,000 USD. Lot sold 75,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

with three deeply cut notches forming three arcs, each set with a pair of three-pronged teeth, finely incised on one side with two horizontal lines and one diagonal line, the stone of rich red brown color with chestnut and paler patches of calcification to the surface. 

Provenance: Collection of Berthold Laufer.
Collection of Gerald Godfrey.
Christie's London, 6th June 2000, lot 1.

Property from the Sam and Myrna Myers Collection

Exhibited: Stones of Virtue: Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, January, 1989, cat. no. 17.
Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1990, cat. no. 53.

Literature: Clarence W. Kelley, Stones of Virtue, Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection, Dayton, 1989, cat. no. 17, pl. 16.
Filippo Salviati, Radiant Stones: Archaic Chinese Jades, Hong Kong, 2000, cat. no. 34.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM