Thumb Ring (1800s–1900s): Art, History and Details
Thumb Ring at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1800s–1900s, green and white jade. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Thumb Ring (1800s–1900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Jade rings were worn by men on the thumb of the right hand to assist with holding and pulling the string of the archer’s bow. However, thumb rings were also fashionable accessories for civil officials in the late Qing dynasty.
Object facts
- Title: Thumb Ring
- Date: 1800s–1900s
- Culture: China
- Type: Jewelry
- Technique: green and white jade
- Dimensions: Diameter: 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.); Overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.)
- Collection: Chinese Art
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1947.550
Collection credit
Bequest of Cornelia Blakemore Warner
Further reading listed by the museum
- Hollis, Howard C. “Bequest of Cornelia B. Warner.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 6 (June 1948): 106–111.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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