Flanged bracelet

Object Details

• Description

  Disk with open center, projecting inner rim; opaque tan with some semitranslucent areas. (Calcified almost entirely; minor deposits.)

  (Jenny F. So, Jade Project Database, entered March 25, 2009) Opaque warm/golden ivory white with incrustations of cinnabar. Unlike other collared disks in collection, edges of collar are rounded off and smooth (later re-finishing?), so that they appear unusually low.

• Provenance

  To 1964

  J. T. Tai & Co., New York, New York [1]

  From 1964 to 1987

  Arthur M. Sackler, New York, purchased from J. T. Tai & Co., New York, New York in 1964 [2]

  From 1987

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler on September 11, 1987 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] J. T. Tai's stockcard no. YT-1007, according to information provided by the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation on October 9, 2009.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] Pursuant to the agreement between Dr. 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.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  In Praise of Ancestors: Ritual Objects from China (September 28, 1987 to January 1, 1989)

• Previous custodian or owner

  J. T. Tai & Co. (established in 1950)

  Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987)

• Origin

  probably Sichuan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

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• Date

  BCE 1000s

• Name

  Sackler, Arthur M., J. T. Tai & Co.

• Place

  China, Sichuan province

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry