- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.525
- Title
- Jade 'Yuan' Disk
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- disk
- Date
- c. 2000 BCE - c. 1000 BCE (?)
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204490
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Translucent, pale green, fine-grained nephrite with darker markings; surface polished smooth
- Dimensions
- 0.9 x 16.9 cm (3/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
unspecified: 467 g
- Published Text
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- 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. 88 by Max Loehr:
88 Yüan Disk
Heavy disk of translucent, pale green, fine-grained jade with darker markings. The surface is polished smooth. The perforation was drilled from both sides and afterwards smoothed, so that it seems to be almost cylindrical. Shang or later. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.525
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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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. 88, p. 87
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