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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.599
Title
Jade Segment of a Large Disk
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
c. 4000 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204294

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque brownish gray nephrite enclosing a large area of translucent bluish green nephrite with whitish clouds
Dimensions
0.8 x 8.1 x 19.8 cm (5/16 x 3 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
unspecified: 302 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. 95 by Max Loehr:

95 Segment of a Large Disk
This plain, somewhat unevenly worked segment forms an arc of approximately 140 degrees. It is made of an opaque brownish gray stone that encloses a large, almost straight-sided area of translucent bluish green jade with whitish clouds. Near either end, the segment is perforated conically from the upper side. The outermost corners are battered. The surfaces were finished to a matt polish. Shang or Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.599
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. 95, p. 93

Verification Level

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