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Wong #16. One Jade Küan (or Ch'üan). Hsia. Chinese. 
[[stamp]] Smithsonian. [[/stamp]] 
1357

A large, thick, undecorated ring with perpendicular walls. Several large areas of rock removal leave outer surface in unsymmetrical form. Color probably originally translucent ice-green, which color is now visible only along inner wall, the rest of the object being entirely covered with opaque creamy white, stained on one side with orange yellow. Surface unusually smooth.
Diameter, 4 7/16": of orifice (average) 3 1/6". 
In wooden box.

Purchased from K. T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York,
Special Voucher $20 January, 1919, 300.00


Wong #17. One Fragment of a Jade Tablet Huang. Hsia. Chinese. 
[[stamp]] Smithsonian. [[/stamp]] 
1358

A flat, irregularly oblong piece of jade of varying thickness, with jagged outer edge. One small orifice bored through object near straight edge and another, bored diagonally through one corner, visible only from one side. Color on one surface golden amber and green, surrounded at edge with a strongly marked band of varying width, showing tones of deep russet, red and black. Opposite surface gray, finely speckled with white and partially covered with a thin firm of golden brown discoloration. Surfaces usually smooth. 
Length over all, 5 5/16"; greatest width, 3 1/3". 
In wooden box with No. S.I. 1959.

Purchased from K. T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York, 
Special Voucher $39 January, 1918, 250.00


Wong #18. One Jade Tablet, or Yan Ch'an (Medicine Space). Chou. Chinese.
[[stamp]] Smithsonian. [[/stamp]] 
1359

A flat, oblong, hatchet-shaped object, with one of the lower corners broken off. Obverse surface inclined at top with two early animalistic forms holding between them a circular disc, beneath which appears a constellation and a group of archaic characters, the central once placed within a rectangle. A small orifice, one and one-quarter inches from top, in bored conically through jade from opposite surface. This surface is left in an extremely rough and flaky condition, and is decorated with an incised constellation. Color on obverse, black and dark meal brown mottled with golden brown - slight areas of silver-gray earth deposit. Reverse surface tarnish gray and golden brown mottled with black. height over all, 5": greatest width, 3 3/8".

Purchased from K. T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York, Special Voucher #29 January, 1918, 100.00

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