- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.384
- Title
- Jade Plaque with Openwork Bird Figure
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ornament
- Date
- 475 BCE - 221 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/203224
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Light brown translucent nephrite
- Dimensions
- 5.2 x 3.1 x 0.3 cm (2 1/16 x 1 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 6 g
- Published Text
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- 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. 510 by Max Loehr:
510 Plaque with Openwork Bird Figure
Light brown translucent jade plaque in the shape of a pointed shield, surmounted by a long-tailed bird with turned head. An involute curl issues from the side of the shield opposite the bird’s tail. Identically engraved on both sides are curvilinear motifs and unobtrusively striated areas. Above the bird’s neck is a small perforated appendage. Late Eastern Chou. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.384
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 510, p. 344
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