Collared disk

Object Details

• Description

  Disk; open center, with projecting inner ring; opaque veined tan/cream. (Calcified [?]; one crack near edge.)

  (Jenny F. So, Jade Project Database, entered March 25, 2009) Evenly opaque ivory white; altered. Smoothly finished and polished; concentric rings on both surfaces (only barely visible), the result of rotating tool in shaping process or deliberate incising. Hole is very small in proportion with diameter of disk (1/3), but still meets minimal requirement for a bracelet.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Diedrich Abbes (1866-1959)

  Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987)

• Provenance

  At least by 1939 to 1959

  Diedrich Abbes (1866-1959), Greenwich, CT [1]

  1959 to 1987

  Arthur M. Sackler, New York, purchased from the estate of Diedrich Abbes on July 10, 1959 through Frank Caro, C. T. Loo Chinese Art, New York [2]

  From 1987

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Arthur M. Sackler in 1987 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Diedrich Abbes loaned the collared disk to Arden Gallery, New York for "3000 Years of Chinese Jade" exhibition, see: Arden Gallery, 3000 Years of Chinese Jade exh. cat. (January 10 to February 11, 1939) no. 36 (ill.).

  [2] See note on Arthur M. Sackler, M.D. letterhead acknowledging the "purchase and receipt of 17 pieces of stone carvings of the Shang, Yin-Chou and Chou periods from the Dietrich-Abbes collection. The price in full, exclusive of commission, will be paid as indicated by this note in two installments," copy in object file. See also letter to Frank Caro from Arnold J. Bai of the law firm Goldstein and Peck, Bridgeport Connecticut, September 28, 1960, copy in object file. The letter asks Frank Caro to have (presumably) his client, Arthur M. Sackler, to send the final payment for the Diedrich Abbes Collection of jades to the law firm. Goldstein and Peck mistakenly identify Mr. Caro's business as C. T. Loo Company, when it was called C. T. Loo Chinese Art.

  [3] Pursuant to the agreement between Arthur M. Sackler and the Smithsonian Institution, dated July 28, 1982, legal title of the donated objects was transferred to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on September 11, 1987.

• Origin

  Anyang, probably Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

• On View

  Sackler Gallery 23b: Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings

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• Date

  BCE 1000s

• Name

  Abbes, Diedrich, Sackler, Arthur M.

• Place

  China, Henan province, Anyang

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Anyang period, Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1300 - 1050 BCE)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry

• On View

  Yes