Baluster-Shaped Chariot Pole End-Cap (One of a Pair)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.52.30.A
Title: Baluster-Shaped Chariot Pole End-Cap (One of a Pair)
Classification: Riding Equipment
Work Type: ornament
Date: 5th-3rd century BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204296

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Cast bronze with gold and silver inlay and with yellow and blue glass inlay
Technique: Inlaid
Dimensions: H. 10.5 × Diam. 4.3 cm (4 1/8 × 1 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.52.30.A

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 046, pp. 46-47

Exhibition History

Re-View: S228-230 Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/31/2008 - 06/01/2013

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