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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.585
Title
Glass Disk
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
3rd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198991

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Milky white glass with chalky corrosion
Dimensions
Diam. 11.9 × Thickness 0.7 cm (4 11/16 × 1/4 in.)
214 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. 543 by Max Loehr:

543 Glass Disk
Similar to, but smaller than the preceding disk. The obverse side is decorated with beveled, four-sided elevations forming a square grid pattern, while the reverse side is plain. The hole is conical. Save for an apparently colorless core, the glass paste has turned into a chalky white substance with a buff surface. Western Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.585
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. 543, p. 380
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 34-35, fig. 2.8
  • Katherine Eremin, Angela Chang, and Ariel O'Connor, Jade in the Lab, Early Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019), Pages 28-47, Figure 2.8, Page 35

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