Description:
The exceptional quality and great breadth of the Freer and Sackler collections of ancient Chinese jades inspired this online catalogue. Its combination of museum and archaeological research with archival records and documentary images is designed to share knowledge and to encourage new study. The first three volumes are dedicated to Neolithic, Shang 商, and Western Zhou 周 pieces. The fourth and final volume features works produced from the Eastern Zhou 周 and Han 漢 dynasties.
Each volume contains comprehensive entries that reveal the evolving understanding of experts over the past century. Additional contents address the people involved in the discovery, sale, or study of each piece. The information contained in these Objects, Places, and People divisions of the catalogue is supplemented with Essays, which provide broader contextualization, and Resources, which offer reference materials useful for research.
