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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.172
Title
Jade Cicada
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
pendant
Date
possibly 1100 - 771 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204890

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pale gray-green and bone-colored nephrite
Dimensions
H. 4.3 x W. 1.1 x D. 0.7 cm (1 11/16 x 7/16 x 1/4 in.)
Weight 6 g

Published Text

Catalogue
Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Authors
Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber
Publisher
Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975)

Catalogue entry no. 315 by Max Loehr:

315 Cicada
Pale gray-green and bone-colored jade sculpture in the round. The head is pointed and perforated at the nose; between the eyes, which are carved in relief, run three transverse grooves. The cicada has plain wings, and transverse grooves on the underside. Western Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.172
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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. 017, pp. 16-17, repr.
  • Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 315, p. 213

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