Ring
Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium
Worked and polished jade
Geography
China
Date
3rd millennium BC
Period
Neolithic Period
Dimensions
3.2 x 3.9 cm
Object number
927.19.252
Credit Line
Bishop William C. White Collection
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: China
Description
Faintly translucent blue-green stone finely veined with white and gold, with darkening on one side and almost complete calcification. Truncated conical form perforated but thick-walled. Exterior curved with 9 encircling ribs. There is a slightly longer, tapering cylinder with fluted thinner wall in the collection which may be related to this one in function , as it is in form .
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