Chinese Stone Grinding Wheel

A patterned disc with a big ragged hole where the center should be.

This stone grinding wheel is from Shandong Province, China. Shandong Province has a long agricultural history, and it has been an important grain-growing region of northern China for centuries. A flat round slab with a rim of finely chiseled radial ticks. Near the middle, an uneven large opening sits beside two smaller punctures. The surface is greyish-pink with rusty brown stains and some pitting. It is 22.5 inches wide, 4.25 deep and 22.5 high.

Holes arrived uninvited, but the pattern held up.