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A jade disk that has been cut into a thin ring. It is dark brown in color with some pale yellow along the center-left. It has been engraved with swirling lines that make a pattern throughout the piece.

Ornate Jade Ring-Disk

Chinese

Tortoise-shell colored nephrite with areas of incipient calcification

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

Ritual Implements