Pendant in the form of a faceted ring

1. Bought from Abel William Bahr, New York. See "Miscellaneous List, of Stone, Marble, Jade, etc.," May 1917, page  9.

2. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Original attribution: Chinese agate. See above reference.

3. (G. A. Eisen, 1929) Two Chinese carinated rings of milch colored translucent glass. Somewhat similar carinated rings have also been found in late Etruscan tombs of the early Roman Empire in Italy.

4. (Hin-cheung Lovell, 1975) Added "Period Uncertain."

5. (Thomas Lawton, 1981) See Folder Sheet F1915.319.

6. (Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C. [Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1982], cat. no. 132) The faceting of the outer surfaces of this quartz ring is similar to that on the previous example. The addition of a second, transitional bevel on the interior of the ring provides a  subtlety of form lacking in the first example. This ring is cracked and there are several chips along the outer edges. Green adhesions appear on the surface.

7. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 17, 2008) "Jewelry" added as secondary classification.

8. (Jeffrey Smith per Matthew Clarke, April 25, 2022) Material changed from Glass to Quartz.

9. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, August 22, 2023) Title changed from "Ring; plain angular surfaces of this ring are separated by narrow flat intervals that function as "spines" on the 3 outer junctures" to "Pendant in the form of a faceted ring"; Period Two entered as "Warring States period"; Date changed from "5th-4th century BCE" to "475-221 BCE"; and added Chinese caption by Jingmin Zhang.