Flanged bracelet

Object Details

• Description

  Disk, with projecting inner rim; opaque cream/tan; open center. (Almost totally calcified; some worn spots with chipping on central flange.)

  (Jenny F. So, Jade Project Database, entered March 25, 2009) Opaque gray and creamy white, altered; cinnabar accretion. Shaping precise and refined. Slight convex inner wall of hole suggests biconical hole smoothed out. Series of shallow concentric rings in no discernible arrangement on flat surface of disk. Wu Tanghai 吳棠海 interprets these rings as results of uneven coarseness of abrasive, added to grinding process in installments. The original larger grained abrasives produced deeper, more obvious circular grooves, and as the grain size wears away in the process, produce increasingly shallower grooves. A new batch of abrasives will begin the process anew. Thinly rounded and shaped collar.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Jades (October 1, 1989 - September 10, 1990)

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

• Origin

  Anyang, probably Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

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• Date

  BCE 1000s

• Place

  China, Henan province, Anyang

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry