Long Flaring Jade Tube | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.393
Title: Long Flaring Jade Tube
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: tube
Date: c. 1700 BCE - c. 1000 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Neolithic period to Shang dynasty
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/203369

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Translucent celadon-green nephrite with small, whitish clouds
Dimensions: 15.5 x 3.2 cm (6 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 148 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. 178 by Max Loehr:

178 Long Flaring Tube
Translucent celadon-green jade with small, whitish clouds. The cylindrical tube flares slightly at one end, and pronouncedly at the other end. It is perforated length-wise by a funnel-shaped hole, which narrows considerably and terminates off center at the smaller end. Shang or later.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.393

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, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 178, p. 139

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