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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 Qing dynasty court as part of a musical ensemble to be played with bronze bells. Inscribed along one edge of the chime are two characters stating the chime’s pitch. The inscription along the shorter side provides a date equivalent to 1764.
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