- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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One of the fifteen beads found inside the bronze wine container you 卣 (S1987.968a-b); perforations drilled off-center from both sides; slightly flared profile; undecorated; even dark gray-green with dark brown streaks.
- Published References
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- J. Keith Wilson, Jingmin Zhang. Jades for Life and Death. .
- Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-1936. Exh. cat. London, 1935. cat. 233.
- Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the T’ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). Exh. cat. New York, 1938. cat. 105.
- Sueji Umehara. Shina-kodo Seikwa [Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America]. Osaka, 1933. cat. 73.
- A loan exhibition of early Chinese art treasures: for the benefit of Chinese civilian war victims. Exh. cat. New York, 1938. p. 19.
- Important Chinese Art: Early Dynastic Bronzes, Silver and Gold. New York, 1963. p. 40.
- Joan Marcia Hartman. At the Sales: America. vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 1964. p. 46.
- Jessica Rawson. Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing. London, 1995. p. 239, fig. 2.
- Robert W. Bagley. Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections: Volume 1 of Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. vol. 1, Washington and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987. p. 373.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Jades for Life and Death
- Google Cultural Institute
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International Image Interoperability Framework
FS-S1987.935.3_001