1943.50.407.A: Jade Fish Sihouette (one of a pair)
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.407.A
- Title
- Jade Fish Sihouette (one of a pair)
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- pendant
- Date
- 11th cent. BCE - 10th cent. 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/202382
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mottled dark green and buff opaque nephrite, stained with cinnabar
- Dimensions
-
7.7 x 1.2 x 0.4 cm (3 1/16 x 1/2 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 8 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. 273 by Max Loehr:
273 Pair of Fish Silhouettes
Mottled dark green and buff opaque jade, stained with cinnabar. Slender, straight, flat pieces, beveled at the upper edges and at the tails, but flattened below. The fins are marked by deep notches. A perforation at each mouth. Western Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.407.A
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 273a, p. 200
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