Rabbit Figure Cut from a Jade Disk Segment

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.302
Title: Rabbit Figure Cut from a Jade Disk Segment
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: ornament
Date: 16th-8th century BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period: Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204480

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Opaque, bone-colored and dark olive-green jade with traces of a dull reddish pigment
Dimensions: H. 8.5 x W. 2.5 x D. 0.8 cm (3 3/8 x 1 x 5/16 in.)
Weight 53 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. 160 by Max Loehr:

160 Rabbit Figure cut from a Disk Segment
Opaque, bone-colored and dark olive-green jade with traces of a dull reddish pigment. The rabbit’s feet are connected by a short bridge; together with the legs and the belly they form a circle of irregular shape. Head and body, crenelated like No. 159, are curved in accordance with the shape of the disk from which the figure was carved. The tail is formed by a pointed hook at the end of the crenelated flange. The eyes are marked by concentric circles; incised double lines are used to define the nose and mouth. A pattern of large hooks and spirals covers the body. Both sides are engraved identically. There is no perforation. 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

1943.50.302

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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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. 160, p. 130
Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 168-69, fig. 3

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