- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.51.5
- Title
- Jade Spearhead in a Bronze Socket
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- spearhead
- Date
- 770 BCE - 221 BCE (?)
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Eastern Zhou period, 770-256 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204590
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Celadon-green nephrite blade with brown and dark gray markings; bronze socket
- Dimensions
- 17.3 x 2.8 x 1.7 cm (6 13/16 x 1 1/8 x 11/16 in.)
unspecified: 147 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. 362 by Max Loehr:
362 Jade Spearhead in a Bronze Socket
Slender, leaf-shaped blade with strong, tapering midribs, extremely sharp, faceted edges, and a tapering socket with a thick rope-like roll around it. The blade is fashioned of celadon-green jade with brown and dark gray markings; the surface is polished to a high gloss. Incised on the socket and base of the blade are angular patterns, which are partly effaced. The bronze socket narrows from its concave aperture to fit exactly into the hollowed-out end of the jade socket; it is provided with longitudinal ribs, one of which has disappeared under a lump of oxidized iron adhering to the surface. Early Easter Chou. - 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
- 1943.51.5
- 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. 362, p. 244
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