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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.383
Title
Ornamental Jade Plaque
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ornament
Date
late Western or early Eastern Zhou, c. 8th cent. BCE - c. 7th cent. BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, c. 1050-221 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/203367

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Warm grayish white and light brown, ,strongly translucent nephrite
Dimensions
5.8 x 3.6 x 0.3 cm (2 5/16 x 1 7/16 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 11 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. 335 by Max Loehr:

335 Ornamental Plaque
A warm grayish white and light brown, strongly translucent jade plaque, apparently fashioned from the section of a broken disk. Adapted to the given contour and surface is a design—on one side only— in single and double engraved lines representing a dragon overlapped by a bird. Neither of these zoomorphs is shown complete; of the dragon we see only the head. The piece is perforated in the middle under the bird’s convolute beak. Late Western or early Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.383
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. 335, p. 222
  • Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (Volume IIA), Arthur M. Sackler Foundation and Arthur M. Sackler Museum (Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 116, fig. 162c
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), p. 182, fig. 3

Verification Level

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