1. Bought from Tonying and Company, New York. For price, see Original Miscellaneous List, p. 239. $100.
2. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Original attribution: Chinese. Han 漢. See further, S.I. 1073, Appendix VIII (see Paragraph 5).
3. (Isabel Ingram Mayer, 1945) Chou [Zhou] 周 dynasty.
4. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Sp. G. is 2.936. Decomposition prevents a more accurate calculation for nephrite.
5. (H. Elise Buckman, 1964) The Envelope File contained no further information and has now been destroyed.
6. (Thomas Lawton, 1978) Attribution changed from Chou [Zhou] 周 to Neolithic.
7. (Julia K. Murray, 1982) "3rd millennium BCE" is added to the date. See Folder Sheet F1917.387 for a discussion of bangles.
Bangle F1917.140 has a noticeably waxier surface texture than other bangles in the Freer collection; also its hole has a constant diameter and the walls have a regular thickness, setting it somewhat apart from other bangles in the collection that are attributed to the Neolithic period.
8. (Stephen Allee per Keith Wilson, February 26, 2008) On this date entered: Period One (Late Neolithic period), Date (3300--2250 BCE), Artist (Liangzhu 良渚 culture), Title, Object name, Geographical region (Lake Tai 太湖 region); plus Dimensions per Christine Lee, from Jade Project Database.
9. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 1, 2008) Jewelry added as secondary classification.
10. (Jeffrey Smith per Janet Douglas, June 17, 2010) Nephrite added as modifier to existing medium of "jade" based on conservation analysis.