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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.575
Title
Jade Pommel of a Sword
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ornament
Date
3rd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Warring States period (475-221 BCE) to Western Han period (206 BCE-9 CE)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204586

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pale brownish green and bone-colored stone of medium translucency
Dimensions
0.6 x 4.8 cm (1/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 20 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. 459 by Max Loehr:

459 Pommel of a Sword
Pale brownish green and bone-colored stone of medium translucency but inferior hardness. The disk-shaped piece has a large umbo, which is decorated with an incised whorl made up of four C -spirals. Enclosing the umbo is an inward-sloping zone with spiral curls in relief. On the reverse side is a smaller boss with two slanting perforations that join to form a tunnel; this boss is surrounded by a concave zone. Late Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.575
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. 459, p. 312

Verification Level

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