1943.50.552: Ornate Jade Disk
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.552
- Title
- Ornate Jade Disk
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- disk
- Date
- 206 BCE - 220 CE (?)
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204577
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Dark green nephrite with light brown and russet spots
- Dimensions
-
0.5 x 16.5 cm (3/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 312 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. 535 by Max Loehr:
535 Ornate Disk
This disk, made of dark green jade with light brown and russet spots, resembles the preceding type in that the décor is arranged in two concentric zones divided by a rope-ring, but differs with regard to the design of the outer zone. Instead of the “bucraniums” there appear, on both sides alike, three bird figures, elongated and in sweeping curves, executed by incisions and heavier grooves. The neatly carved hexagons are left plain. The perforation is unusually small and slightly conical. Western or Eastern Han.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.552
- 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. 535, p. 372
Verification Level
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