1943.50.605: Stone Chime (?)
Musical InstrumentsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.605
- Title
- Stone Chime (?)
- Classification
- Musical Instruments
- Work Type
- musical instrument
- Date
- late 19th cent. - early 20th cent.
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204235
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Light brown and russet, dimly translucent stone
- Dimensions
-
18.3 x 4.2 x 1 cm (7 3/16 x 1 5/8 x 3/8 in.)
unspecified: 178 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. 622 by Max Loehr:
622 Stone Chime(?)
Light brown and russet, dimly translucent stone of lesser hardness than jade. The obtuse-angled, smoothly polished slab, perforated at the apex, is reminiscent of the stone chimes, ch’ing. However, the symmetry of this piece (ch’ing are asymmetrically designed) and the unevenly curved ends do not correspond to the ordinary shape of the ch’ing. Possibly, therefore, the piece was for some reason recut and pierced in the center. Han or later.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.605
- 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. 622, p. 426
Verification Level
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