Bracelet

1672-1722

These rope bracelets represent a tour de force of jade carving. Each is crafted from a single piece of jade, and each strand is continuous and free from the neighboring strand. Both bracelets have an inscription that reads, “Ningshou gong” (Palace of Tranquil Longevity), a palace in the Forbidden City of Beijing where the dowager empress lived during the Kangxi emperor’s reign. Jade carvings continued to be commissioned by Kangxi’s grandson, the Qianlong emperor. The palace’s east and west corridors are now museum galleries for the paraphernalia of emperors and empresses.

Grayish white nephrite

Overall: 3/8in. (1cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

37.23.1

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

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Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Asia House, "Chinese Jades From Han To Ch'ing", October 1980 - July 1981. Circuit: Detroit Institute of Art, Seattle Art Museum, Honolulu Academy of Art (10/1980 - 7/1981)

London, England, The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Society, Victoria and Albert Museum, "Chinese Jades Throughout The Ages", 1975 (1975)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

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