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Mar 17, 2006

Perforated Disc (pi)

3000–2000 BCE

China, Neolithic period

(3000s–2000s BCE)

Jade

Diameter: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); Inner diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.627

Location

not on view

Provenance

?–1915

(Dr. John C. Ferguson 福開森 [1866–1945], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art through H. W. [Henry Watson] Kent [1866–1948] )

1915–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

"Aspects of Art and Science," Compton Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 10 October - 22 December 1978

The Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Mansfield Art Center, Feb. 27-April 10, 1983

Aspects of Art and Science. Margaret Hutchinson Compton Gallery, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (October 10-December 22, 1978).

Science within Art. Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH (June 1-July 1, 1980).

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Perforated Disc (pi)

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China, Neolithic period

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