Ring with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1943

  Yamanaka and Company, New York, to January 1943 [1]

  From 1943 to 1948

  C. T. Loo and Company, New York, purchased from Yamanaka and Company in January 1943 [2]

  From 1948

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo and Company on July 14, 1948 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See C. T. Loo’s stockcard no. NYL 43/481: “Round Jade Pi [bi] with a large hole and decorated on both sides with a field of small coils, creamy gray patina. Later Chou [Zhou]. Diam 5 (in a wooden box),” C. T. Loo and Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file. According to an annotation on the stockcard, the pendant was purchased from Yamanaka and Company.

  [2] See C. T. Loo’s stockcard cited in note 1. On June 1, 1944, the pendant was taken by Loo to the Freer Gallery for examination.

  [3] See C. T. Loo’s invoice, dated July 14, 1948, copy in object file.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Chinese Art (February 18, 1983 to April 1, 1987)

  Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

  Ancient Chinese Jade (September 4, 1980 to March 6, 1981)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

  C. T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

• Origin

  Jincun, Probably Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Ceremonial Object

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Name

  C. T. Loo & Company, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China, Jincun, Henan province

• Topic

  Art, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Carving, Chinese Art, Nephrite, Jade, Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ceremonial objects