Ritual ImplementsChinese

Jade Disk in Three Segments

16th-8th century BCE

Classification

Ritual Implements

Medium

Translucent, light greenish gray nephrite with light brown markings and creamy white calcified streaks

Culture

Chinese

Period

Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

ensemble: Diam. 14.5 x Thickness 0.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3/16 in.) Weight 156 g

Provenance

Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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