1943.52.44: Turquoise-Inlaid Plaque with Stylized Animal-Mask Decoration
Plaques
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.52.44
- Title
- Turquoise-Inlaid Plaque with Stylized Animal-Mask Decoration
- Classification
- Plaques
- Work Type
- plaque
- Date
- 1900 - 1500 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Erlitou culture, c. 1900-1500 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204654
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze with turquoise inlay; incrustations of greenish patina and earth with impressions of a closely woven fabric
- Dimensions
- H. 16.1 x W. 10 x D. 0.5 cm (6 5/16 x 3 15/16 x 3/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.52.44
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 041, pp. 42-43
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