E76 Early Spring and Autumn Period Ripple Pattern Ring

E76 Early Spring and Autumn Period Ripple Pattern Ring (Diameter: 10.90cm ; Thick: 0.25cm

Both sides of the green jade ring are embossed with nipple patterns. The jade ring is very thin. The jade carving in the Warring States period was thin, but not as thin as the jade Bi (disc) in the spring and Autumn period. The reason is that in the spring and Autumn period, the style of wearing jade and advocating jade ware was very prosperous, and the jade of a gentleman without any reason did not leave his body. The quantity of jade used was very large. In the early period of the spring and Autumn period, there were more than 130 countries divided and frequent annexation wars. During the early two hundred years of the spring and Autumn period, there were three or four hundred wars of different sizes and inconvenient transportation. Therefore, it was necessary to save jade materials and make them thin, forming the dynasty with the thinnest plate-shaped jade in history. This jade ring is an example.

           In the early spring and Autumn period, there were many reliefs like jade Bi and Huan with irregular arrangement. In the later period, they gradually became as neat as rows and columns, and even carved with young lines forming oblique grids. Each grid had a milk Ding pattern protruding, which is called "Pu grass pattern". At this time, there was "grain patterns".            

Although large part of this nipple pattern jade ring is eroded, its jade quality is good, and it is still bright and lustrous. Its jade is even and thin, simple and solemn. It's a rare one: it's a good product of high ancient culture with historical significance!