Jade (nephrite) slit ring, shang and zhou dynasties, 3.5 cm across.
Slit Ring (Jue), 4th–3rd century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.283. CC0.

Jue (slit ring)

Slit Ring (Jue)

Chinese name
指环
Pinyin
zhihuan
Dimensions
diameter 3.5 cm
Accession no.
2008.283
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a slit ring in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The recorded medium is jade (nephrite). Its recorded diameter is 3.5 cm in diameter. Accession number 2008.283, purchase, Sir Joseph Hotung Gift, 2008.

This description is a direct summary of the museum's own record, not an independent assessment. It is awaiting editorial rewriting; the facts it states are the ones the holding institution asserts.

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