Dish
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This Chinese dish has been carved out of a single piece of pale green nephrite jade. Nephrite is a hard and durable material which requires patience and skill to work, and it has been used as the raw material for the manufacture of high quality objects for many years. Despite its toughness, when it is worked to a shallow thickness, it can be prone to damage by sharp impacts or by significant and rapid changes in temperature. This piece was This dish was originally acquired by the India Museum in London and was transferred to the South Kensington Museum (later renamed The Victoria & Albert Museum) in 1879.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Nephrite jade, fashioned and polished using abrasives and abrasive-charged tools, with the process being achieved by turning on a bow-driven lathe. |
| Brief description | Dish, shallow foot with rim, unadorned, pale green nephrite jade, China |
| Physical description | A shallow, circular dish standing on a short foot with rim. Fashioned in pale green nephrite jade with a few dark grey patches and a healed fracture running across the body. The surfaces are unadorned and polished, with an "orange peel" effect to the surface. |
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| Object history | This dish was formerly in The India Museum in London and it was then transferred to the South Kensington Museum (later renamed The Victoria & Albert Museum) in 1879. 1880 Register Entry: [Room 8. Case .] '01,367. SAUCER. Jade. ?27' |
| Summary | This Chinese dish has been carved out of a single piece of pale green nephrite jade. Nephrite is a hard and durable material which requires patience and skill to work, and it has been used as the raw material for the manufacture of high quality objects for many years. Despite its toughness, when it is worked to a shallow thickness, it can be prone to damage by sharp impacts or by significant and rapid changes in temperature. This piece was This dish was originally acquired by the India Museum in London and was transferred to the South Kensington Museum (later renamed The Victoria & Albert Museum) in 1879. |
| Other number | ?27 - India Museum Slip Book |
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| Accession number | 01367(IS) |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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