Disk with open center, projecting inner rim; opaque tan with some semitranslucent areas. (Calcified almost entirely; minor deposits.)
(Jenny F. So, Jade Project Database, entered March 25, 2009) Opaque warm/golden ivory white with incrustations of cinnabar. Unlike other collared disks in collection, edges of collar are rounded off and smooth (later re-finishing?), so that they appear unusually low.
Provenance:
To 1964
J. T. Tai & Co., New York, New York [1]
From 1964 to 1987
Arthur M. Sackler, New York, purchased from J. T. Tai & Co., New York, New York in 1964 [2]
From 1987
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler on September 11, 1987 [3]
Notes:
[1] J. T. Tai's stockcard no. YT-1007, according to information provided by the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation on October 9, 2009.
[2] See note 1.
[3] Pursuant to the agreement between Dr. Arthur M. Sackler and the Smithsonian Institution dated July 28, 1982, legal title of the donated objects was transferred to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on September 11, 1987.
Collection:
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Exhibition History:
In Praise of Ancestors: Ritual Objects from China (September 28, 1987 to January 1, 1989)
