Chime from an Imperial Set
Making a chime out of jade enhanced the ritual potential of court music. In Chinese culture, jade has been a desired material for millennia and is believed to embody spiritual transcendence. This gilded jade chime once belonged to a set of 16 such chimes. It was made for the Q...
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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