- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.52.38.A
- Title
- Socketed Finial in the Form of a Bird (One of a Pair)
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- finial
- Date
- 475 BCE - 221 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204626
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gilt bronze with crystal inlay
- Dimensions
- H. 25.1 x W. 8.7 x D. 4.1 cm (9 7/8 x 3 7/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
- 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
- 1943.52.38.A
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Zhixin Jason Sun, Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2017), pp. 104-105, fig. 72
- Exhibition History
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S427: Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Jades, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1985 - 04/30/2008
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