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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.138
Title
Small Oblong Jade Pendant
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
pendant
Date
770 BCE - 476 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, 770-476 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198965

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque gray stone
Dimensions
6.2 x 1.4 x 0.6 cm (2 7/16 x 9/16 x 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 10 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. 374 by Max Loehr:

374 Small Oblong Pendant
Slightly biconvex, longitudinally perforated piece of opaque gray stone. The wider faces are decorated with a dense relief pattern of S-, C-, and comma-shaped curlicues, some of which are symmetrically arranged. The pattern is divided into unevenly long fields by four transverse, obliquely striated bands. The silhouette is articulated by a regular pattern of notches. Early Easter Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.138
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 374, p. 250

Verification Level

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